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Jacob's Café: January 2015
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, January 26, 2015. Will All Be Well? I've started subscribing to Richard Rohr's daily devotional. Which I have found to be more thoughtful than most, balancing both an opportunity to pause and contemplate with intellectual growth and stimulation. Back in November, he had a post. Reflecting on Julian of Norwich's famous prayer, "All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.". Psychological rese...
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Jacob's Café: Mimetic Atonement
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Friday, April 15, 2011. Yesterday, I provided very brief summaries. Of some of the dominant theories of atonement with some problems from each. A few weeks ago, I was introduced to the philosophical works of René Girard. During a psychology conference at my doctoral alma mater. If we assume that the ideas of mimetic desire, mimetic violence, and the scapegoat mechanism are accurate within humanity, then God's introduction of liter...
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Jacob's Café: Offensive Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Arguments
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, May 4, 2015. Offensive Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Arguments. There are many opinions about the arguments in and around the Supreme Court review of same sex marriage. Two stuck out to me as particularly absurd and offensive, likely because they struck closer to home. The relationships some stepparents have with their stepchildren isn't relevant? Monday, May 4, 2015 at 7:54:00 AM PDT. I couldnt agree more! Got a questio...
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Jacob's Café: March 2015
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, March 23, 2015. Review: The Centrality of Fringe Hours @JessicaNTurner @christianaudio. The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You. Was one of the best nonfiction audiobooks I've listened to in a while. Jessica Turner essentially writes about self-care in the midst of a busy life. Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions ...With ...
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Jacob's Café: September 2014
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, September 29, 2014. Fighting Biblical Literalism with Literalism? However, then there's other times when I see people fighting conclusions made by literal interpretations by making another literal interpretation after criticizing this exegetical method. This is different than what I described above, as the methodology is undermined, but then the same methodology is used to come to a different conclusion. Links to this post.
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Jacob's Café: Book Review: Ordinary: Extraordinarily Bad
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, March 16, 2015. Book Review: Ordinary: Extraordinarily Bad. With a lot of my interest in valuing the Brother Lawrence-esque approaches to life, I was eager and hopeful to read Ordinary: How to Turn the World Upside Down. The book description is very much in line with what I like to emphasize:. What if the path toward an extraordinary life is becoming more ordinary? However, the book is minimally about the value of ordinary...
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Jacob's Café: Book Review: The Challenge of Desire
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, April 27, 2015. Book Review: The Challenge of Desire. Wanting, longing, and ambition can be great drivers of progress toward God's will. They can also wreck great havoc throughout our lives and the world, of course. Balance is the key. Jen Pollock Michel's book, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition, and the Life of Faith. 2015 Book of the Year, I had high hopes. The problem is that this leads to us ignoring, avoiding, and r...
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Jacob's Café: In Memory of Dr. Robert H. Schuller
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, April 6, 2015. In Memory of Dr. Robert H. Schuller. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered I would soon be at my 400th blog post. I was trying to think of something significant for it. Then last week, Dr. Robert H. Schuller died, and I can think of no better way than to honor him with this post. A brief personal history summary first, for context. He helped build cultural and religious bridges to build a better world. His...
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Jacob's Café: Review: Desiring Atonement
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, June 8, 2015. Including problems with "traditional" atonement theories. The application of René Girard's mimetic theory to Christian atonement. And the fundamental question of whether God needs to be appeased. A few authors have written on similar topics, but André Rabe's. Recent book, Desire Found Me. Many of these topics. Rabe provides helpful strong evidence and detailed explanation supporting more accurate Christ-cente...
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Jacob's Café: August 2014
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Deconstructing a Defense of Christ to Reconstruct a Celebration of Christ. Monday, August 25, 2014. I put a lot of emphasis on meaning-making, for better or for worse. My heart feels at home with Viktor Frankl's logotherapy orientation, focused on meaning as the way to deal with psychological problems. And I pursued a career in psychology because I saw it having more meaning for me than other paths. So this will start a little series on reflections on meaning. Songs and sermons can be stimulating in a va...
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