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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. I was born the fourth child and third son of godly parents in Nashville Tennessee. After leaving home for college I got involved with InterVarsity, then graduated with a degree in finance. After that I got a masters in history. Nowadays I spend too much time reading, writing, thinking, and occasionally doing my job. Homepage: https:/ elderj.wordpress.com/. Thoughts on Charleston and other Matters. On June 20, 2015. When news of the shooting broke, I thought of my ...
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Evangelicalism in a Post-Christendom Age: Part 1 | InterSection
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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. Laquo; Eat the Cake. Why yes. Your skirt is too short… and other thoughts on modesty. Evangelicalism in a Post-Christendom Age: Part 1. These are just surface symptoms. The deeper reality is that a post-Christian age is upon us and the foundational assumptions of the prior age no longer apply. What does all this mean for American Evangelicals? An empty cathedral. The future of the American church? Evangelicalism was a prophetic movement, calling nominal Christians...
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Thoughts on Charleston and other Matters | InterSection
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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. Laquo; The Last Enemy is Death. Thoughts on Charleston and other Matters. The last few days have seen a media furore over the murder, in an historic Charleston church, of nine Black parishioners in attendance at a Bible study by a young White man who allegedly claimed race as his motive. Will the next shooting be at my Dad’s church? Will the next killing by police of an innocent Black man be my cousin? My gut tightened to think of it. I thought of the inability of...
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Where is Home Now? | InterSection
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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. Laquo; In Memoriam. I’m not a White person anymore. Where is Home Now? Recently I received a link about all the things living overseas that no one tells you about. We’re planning a visit to the US in March and yesternight I was discussing it with my wife. I was commenting to her how strange it feels to think of going to the US as going “home”. I think it is because of something a missions Pastor said in an off the cuff remark that I did not fully appreciate at the...
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I’m not a White person anymore | InterSection
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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. Laquo; Where is Home Now? The Last Enemy is Death. I’m not a White person anymore. For the last almost three years, I’ve been a White person. A strange kind of White person, a White person with a funny accent, a White person who doesn’t ‘get’ all the inside cultural jokes, but a White person nonetheless. When I shop, when I go the filling station, when I am stopped by the police, when I do anything and everything, I am White. She is the one to whom is attributed a...
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Evangelicalism in a Post-Christendom Age Part II: In which Evangelicals Lost By Winning | InterSection
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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. Laquo; Why yes. Your skirt is too short… and other thoughts on modesty. Evangelicalism in a Post-Christendom Age Part II: In which Evangelicals Lost By Winning. I briefly detailed the history of American Evangelicalism, tracing its roots to the 2. Great Awakening and the contemporary emergence of a post-Christian society. What is all the more striking is that the soteriological framework of Evangelical thought, complete with its focus on crisis, awareness of guilt...
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The Last Enemy is Death | InterSection
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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. Laquo; I’m not a White person anymore. Thoughts on Charleston and other Matters. The Last Enemy is Death. Today is the day of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. I reflect on this day from the comfort of the guest room in my sister and brother-in-law’s home in California after a nice time at church followed by a nice time of fellowship over a delicious meal. I am busy preparing a presentation for friends and supporters of the ministry. From your own site.
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In Memoriam | InterSection
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Reflections on faith, culture, and life. Laquo; Evangelicalism in a Post-Christendom Age Part II: In which Evangelicals Lost By Winning. Where is Home Now? Flora Knox 1928 – 2014. I received news via Facebook very early this morning that my paternal grandmother, Big Mama, died. She was 86 years old. This request of hers, that I preach her funeral, leads me on to further reflection as I consider her life and her death. One of my cousins mentioned that she was the matriarch of the family. Truer wor...So it...
