Posted on August 28, 2008 by Jason Barr
Thou Shalt Not Kill
by G.K. Chesterton
I had grown weary of him; of his breath
And hands and features I was sick to death.
Each day I heard the same dull voice and tread;
I did not hate him: but I wished him dead.
And he must with his blank face fill my life–
Then my brain blackened; and I snatched [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by Jason Barr
A lot of what I’ve been thinking and writing lately has definitely been influenced by the sorts of thinking I try to flesh out here, but it’s been more of a… “pastoral” nature, I suppose, more “meditative” than “theological”, or something like that. I’ve started writing more of those things on the blog at the [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by Jason Barr
So I apparently was tired earlier and posted the wrong link. The right URL for my church’s site is http://ecclesiacc.wordpress.com. I forgot the “cc”. It has been fixed accordingly.
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by Jason Barr
I haven’t talked about this here, but I’ve somehow managed to get myself involved as the worship leader/teaching pastor of a church seed here in Evansville. We call it a church seed because right now it isn’t big enough to call a plant.
Feel free to check it out and let me know what [...]
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Posted on August 25, 2008 by Jason Barr
I’ve added the Empire Remixed site to my blogroll under the “Christarchy” category. Check it out, there is a lot of good stuff there. Empire Remixed is a project that had its birth in the “Wine Before Breakfast” gatherings in Brian Walsh’s office at the University of Toronto. I’ve written a bit about Walsh and [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by Jason Barr
This time from Robert Brimlow’s What About Hitler? Wrestling with Jesus’ Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World.
“The main difficulty in accepting the implications of our call to be peacemakers is our fear of death and dying, born of a weakness of faith.”
and:
“The gospel is clear and simple, and I know what the response to [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by Jason Barr
“There are two great lies that I’ve heard:
‘the day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die”
and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
and if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him…
My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, [...]
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