Category: Randoms & My Life
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How to Find the Meaning of Life
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** “I’ve never met someone so concerned about doing something meaningful,” someone told me the other day. He was surprised by me, but I found myself surprised…
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Top Ten Works of Christian Fiction – What Are They?
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** UPDATE: I’m glad to see The Gospel Coalition make an attempt at such a list here. The other day my fellow seminarians and I were discussing…
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Augustine on a Drunk Homeless Man–Augustine Again
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** I’m so glad I’ve been able to pick up Augustine’s Confessions again, and came across this passage of Augustine’s reflections on his encounter with a drunk…
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Contentment Vs. Ambition–Let’s Examine Each More Closely
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** This is the second post examining ambition vs. contentment, or, in other words— If there’s something we really, really want, should we teach ourselves contentment because…
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Contentment Vs. Ambition–Should Christians Be Content or Ambitious?
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** I’m going to try a different type of article today, and perhaps a few more times in the upcoming year. I’m going to explore the tension…
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Is Science Superior to Art? (Is That Why Kuyper Wants Theology to be ‘Science’?)
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** It’s easy to bemoan the fall of Theology, from being the ‘Queen of Sciences’ to merely being a subsection of the Religious Studies department (if it…
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Kuyper Encounters Difficulties – Subjectivity Weighs In…
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** Principles of Sacred Theology continues to fascinate me, despite the reality of heavy schoolwork weighing in. In my last post I explained the amazing claim that…
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Bringing Order to Chaos–Can Human Achieve Actual True Knowledge?
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** You may’ve expected my next post to continue with Augustine, and I certainly would like to get back to Augustine, but since I currently am attending…
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Shocked by Augustine’s Confessions
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** Lately I’ve had the leisure to do some more quality reading, as I’ve been laid up with an injury, and I’ve found myself facing Augustine’s Confessions…
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How to Find Your Life’s Passion
Just do things. That’s my answer to that question. Just do things. That’s my answer to that question. Most advice about finding your passion tends to be either ‘follow your heart,’ or, ‘don’t follow your heart, they’re lying to you.’ What neither of these pieces of advice take into account is—how does your heart know…
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