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2012-2013 courses, including...
Fall 2012
 THO 6399 Theological Methodologies: The configuration of data and the communication of insight
A course designed to enable MA students to reflect on ways that theological methods enable us to reflect on the data that are of interest to us, and to construct an MA-level research paper in Theology.
Winter 2013
 THO 3161 Gospel Interpretation: Mark This course presents students with an introduction to the New Testament in its social, cultural, and historical milieu, an opportunity to explore ways of reading New Testament texts, and a closer reading of one particular New Testament text, the Gospel of Mark.
TH0 4103 Johannine Literature
This course is intended to introduce students to the Gospel and Letters of John and in particular to the theological implications of both.
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June 3 ("Prayer and Breaking Bread")
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June 10 ("Commonality")
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June 17 ("Apostolic Teaching")
Previous sermons or presentations
 "Love one another" (sermon for Easter 6, preached at Calvary Christian Reformed Church, May 13, 2012) is available here.
"Seeing is unbelieving," (sermon for Evensong, Octave Day of Easter) is available here.
"The Five Faces of Palm Sunday" (sermon for Palm Sunday 2012), including the film clip (in an extended version) used in the sermon, is available here.
Evensong schedule (St Peter and Paul's Anglican Church Ottawa / Church of the Messiah Ottawa) available here
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How highbrows killed culture
by Fred Siegel
"It is one of the foundational myths of contemporary liberalism: the idea
that American culture in the 1950s was not only stifling in its
banality but a subtle form of fascism that constituted a danger to the
Republic. ... And yet, from a remove of more than a
half century, we can see that the 1950s were in fact a high point for
American culture—a period when many in the vast middle class aspired to
elevate their tastes and were given the means and opportunity to do so."
The flight from conversation
by Sherry Turkle
"We are tempted to think that our little “sips” of online connection add up to a big gulp of real conversation. But they don’t. E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, all of these have their places — in politics, commerce, romance and friendship. But no matter how valuable, they do not substitute for conversation."
Plato's body, and mine
by Bill Hayes
"IF only I had read Plato. ... “Excessive emphasis on athletics produces an excessively uncivilized type, while a purely literary training leaves men indecently soft.”"
Teach the books, touch the heart
by Claire Needell Hollander
"Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this quotation with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation."
 The weakness of the churches
by Ross Douthat
"American evangelicalism is culturally stronger, in many respects, than
it was fifty years ago, but if you look at overall trends in church
membership and participation and activity, the growth in the evangelical
churches hasn’t been substantial enough to compensate for the collapse
of the Mainline and the institutional weakening of Roman Catholicism." (Douthat's new book: Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics .)by Marilynne Robinson
"Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can
religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes
itself again"
Read Andrew Delbanco's review of When I was a child I read books in the NY Times Book Review: here. For previous reading suggestions, click HERE.
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Arrow and Loon Reading Group selection for MAY 2012
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Reclaiming a sense of the sacred
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