HeyJaredThe Otherly
Musings on faith, hope, charity, and all the rest -- in the tradition of Classical Protestantism.
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The Wormwood Letters: Procrastination and Sloth (opens the original)
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My dear Slothbuckle,Your most recent request for advice was — to my great astonishment — well conceived. It seems you’re finally absorbing all those lessons I’ve so malevolently shared with you in the past. So then, to business.You wrote asking for my guidance on whether or not you ought to get your patient fixated directly on his tendencies toward procrastination, or whether you should push him toward a preoccupation with finding new productivity systems, work tools, and so forth. Now, again, l
The Problem with Problem Passages (opens the original)
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A while back, someone made a remark in my presence about “problem passages” in the Bible. By “problem passages,” they meant passages that are deemed “problematic.” But the hi-jinx with this phrase, this concept, this je ne sais quoi of biblical discourse, is that it smuggles in this rather insidious idea that there even are problem passages in the Bible.Now, as is my wont, I here offer a brief qualifier. If you define the “problematic” aspect of “problem passages” as something akin to “difficult
Our Common Faith, Pt. 3 (opens the original)
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Christians nowadays spend a lot of time talking and thinking about Jesus Christ (the Son), and plenty of theologians are being writing and teaching about the Holy Spirit too. But it seems that many of us consider God the Father the same way we consider earthly fatherhood: as a good thing generally speaking, probably — but maybe not safe, and a bit mysterious — so best just to leave it alone. We know that God the Father is there, but — well — we’d rather not draw near to him if it can be helped,
Our Common Faith, Pt. 2 (opens the original)
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The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is, to cry Father! from a full heart. I would help whom I may to call thus upon the Father. (George MacDonald)The Apostles’ Creed begins where literally everything begins: with God. But what or who exactly is God? Is he just the guy who made all the stuff of the universe and then walked away, like a careless watchmaker? Or is God the warm, fuzzy feeling that we all get from time to time when life is simply grand? Or as people thought of Liza Hamilton in t
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