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Loopis Billow: September 2005
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. Another thought I had about my 26.8.05 post (re: Hotel Rwanda, The Crucible) - partially in reaction to some of the ridiculous behaviour after hurricane Katrina:. I think this topic relates in some ways to Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Posted by Lian at 11:58 am. Everything is meaningless." (Eccl. 1:2). This resonates. It echoes in my head over and over every day. I think it is one of the most liberating series of words I have ever read. Until...
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Loopis Billow: December 2005
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. I have several friends who are making a very conscious and decided move to abandon - not their Christian faith - but the church as we know it, in favor of ad hoc Christian gatherings and fellowship. Apparently the "movement" is very widespread. If you're interested in hearing more about it, check out The God Journey.com. I'm not endorsing the site, only mentioning it). Isn't it really just more of the same inwardness and self-seeking that believes its own connectio...
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Loopis Billow: April 2006
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. Here's a passage from an article about the increased interest of film studios. In "catering" to the Christian demographic. Probably not all that shocking, but I'm feeling a little uncertain about the willingness of some pastors to "market" films from the pulpit:. Indeed, studios are finding that ministers who preach to flocks of 5,000 or more a week can be as powerful a marketing tool as a slick advertising campaign. Posted by Lian at 9:43 am. Here are a couple of ...
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Loopis Billow: March 2006
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. Ok, here's a little something else from Bloom, based on the overall premise of his book "The Western Canon". Essentially, Bloom's felt need to defend and solidify the secular Western literary canon. Stems from his perception of contemporary scholarship in Europe and America. According to him, the. This is the idea I find compelling and provocative: Great literature, perhaps great art in general, should not. To be a catalyst for social reform - should not. Interesti...
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Loopis Billow: February 2006
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. An Oldy but a Goody. I have been involved in some important teaching discussions about grace lately. Frankly, I am sick of the bait-and-switch sales tactics I have seen in many Christian circles all my life. "God's grace has left nothing for you to do! Followed, after the fact, by, "Just remember that if you do not live as if Christ is your lord you are not a believer.". Yet there are so many places even in NT scripture that seem to insist upon our. Maybe you're wo...
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Loopis Billow: July 2005
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. I work at a posh, downtown highschool in Melbourne. Only the very well off can afford to go to it. I have loved getting to know the kids there but sometimes the disadvantages of being advantaged break my heart:. Chad: "Where do you live? Dom: "Well I used to live with my parents further East, you know? But I was having too many parties and stuffing up the house and everything so they kicked me out.". So what are you doing now? Lucy: "Where do you go? Dom: "Nah....
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Loopis Billow: November 2005
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. I have lately been wondering about the traditional wisdom which insists that man is born with a "sin nature" - an hereditary bent towards evil. Jesus, as the idea goes, avoided this by way of the virgin birth. Since everyone else is and has been born of. Woman, we cannot escape our inevitable fate. Yesterday we watched on an unltrasound as our new little guy - developing in Erika's womb - did a somersault and squirmed around. Were these movements somehow sinful?
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Loopis Billow: August 2005
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. A pigeon is inside the study centre. We chased it towards the door but it flew where we weren’t, its chin pumping frantically. It has been here all night but doesn’t want food. Even when we leave it alone it will not take the open door. It doesn’t care about being free. Only about being safe. Today I am the signatured bullet the atomic bomb boring fast holes in both sides of a pigeon so sunlight can glow on its entrails. I am setting it free. I am whatever you want...
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Loopis Billow: January 2006
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A variety of thoughts from chad loftis. And Now for the Real Issue. I have been amazed by the chord my last post seemed to stike. I think so many of us are really at a point of crisis about the Church - I'm sure there have been hundreds of such periods of crisis in the past and our faith desperately needs them. Lets see this one through. In the interest of that goal, allow to me take us a little deeper into the rabbit hole of Western Christianity:. Is our obsessively individual ideal - the ideal that, wh...