Focusing on the scripture, mood and context leading up to the birth of Christ (Advent) makes the celebration of Jesus’ birth more profound. At least it does for me. When I really study the first part of Matthew 2 alongside Luke 2 (Linus’s favorite verse) I see a great power struggle between two kingdoms. There [...]
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The Burner’s grandmother used to say, “You don’t know what you don’t know–until you know you don’t know it.”
But the people participating in the Occupy protests are doing us an invaluable service: They are helping to tell us what we don’t know.
Today, participants in the Occupy movement blocked [...]
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The events at Penn State are horrific, tragic and draining on our public consciousness. Deeply troubling questions emerge about revered leaders.
If there is any good that comes from this disaster, it might be found in the reminder about the concept of power in Howard Bryant’s article on theology factory more...
Jennifer Lahl, producer, director, writer and winner of California Film Festivals ‘Best Documentary’ presented her film Eggsploitation to a full room at Fuller Theological Seminary. Many Fuller students like myself came into the viewing with the assumption of discussing the moral ethics involved in the decision making to donate ones eggs. [...]
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The Burner knows it’s Friday evening and nobody is reading blogs right now. However, this post from Jenny Rae Armstrong caught TB’s attention on RedLetterChristians.org. One of the most well-written posts TB has read in a while:
Where is God when a woman is [...]
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The Burner spent some time in New York City this past week for the Q Epiphany conference (more later). Before the conference began, though free time in the Big Apple meant that TB found his way to the drum beats of Zuccotti Park–the epicenter for the in/famous Occupy Wall Street protests. (OWS is protesting [...]
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“If I can bring your loved one home, does it matter how I do it?”
It’s hard to get a quote in a dark theater, but The Burner thinks that is pretty close to the snippet tagged onto the credits of Marc Forster’s new movie Machine Gun Preacher. Known for Oscar-bait films [...]
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