Currently reading: The Wounded Healer by Henri J. M. Nouwen 📚
View of Scheveningen Sands (c. 1630s) by Hendrick van Anthonissen :
This is basically the Platonic Form of what I previously wrote against at Mere O: Redeeming Productivity. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
The Great Walnut Tree (Le Grand Noyer) (1875) by Camille Pissarro:
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Keller, Center Church, pt. 2 (Gospel Renewal)
Part One covered Keller’s discussion of “Gospel Theology.” Obviously, it’s important to start with what is (and isn’t) the gospel. Now, Keller proceeds in Part Two to consider how gospel theology is actually lived out, both individually and corporately (“Gospel Renewal”). Taking his cues from the biblical and historical patterns of revival, Keller wants to know what we can learn about renewal: why we need it, what it is, and how we can pursue it.
Lily and Bella’s favorite part of the Veloway: the bearded dragon belonging to the super kind and knowledgeable Nicole Fisher
Finished reading: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 📚
Enjoyable read, even if the ending was a little abrupt—and a little too neat and tidy. Oh well.
Miroslav Volf, describing the communal analogue to his notion of a “catholic personality”—namely, a “catholic community”:
No church in a given culture may isolate itself from other churches in other cultures declaring itself sufficient to itself and to its own culture. Every church must be open to all other churches. We often think of a local church as a part of the universal church. We would do well also to invert the claim. Every local church is a catholic community because, in a profound sense, all other churches are a part of that church, all of them shape its identity. As all churches together form a world-wide ecumenical community, so each church in a given culture is a catholic community. Each church must therefore say, “I am not only I; all other churches, rooted in diverse cultures, belong to me too.” Each needs all to be properly itself.