The Visual Bible: Matthew

Russell Brand interviews Westboro Baptist Church

origin of "avoid it like the plague"

The phrase finds its origin  in Saint Jerome ( 345-420 A.D.),  who quipped,

 "Avoid, as you would the plague,
 a clergyman
 who is also a man of business,
 and  rises from poverty to wealth,
and from obscurity to a high position." 

-The Prncipal Works of St. Jerome

Bono on Ignatius and epistemology of seeing; "palpable presence of Holy Spirit"

I often wonder who and what Bono has read (some intriguing and obvious answers have been found out; but  I  still don't know for sure about Brueggemann or Moltmann. .NT Wright is probably a given; since much of his writing remind us of the lack of a line on the horizon)..

But now  (in a speech about which Cathleen Falsani said ,"Something big was happening in the room. You could feel it. A palpable presence. I'd call it the Holy Spirit") he quotes Ignatius:

St. Ignatius, he was a soldier. He was lying on a bed recovering from his wounds when he had what they call a conversion of the heart. He saw God's work and the call to do God's work. Not just in the church, in everything, everywhere. The arts, universities, the Orient, the New World. And once he knew about that, he couldn't unknow it.

It changed him,"It forced him out of bed and into the world. And that's what I'm hoping happens here in Georgetown with you. Because when you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you -- in God's eyes or even just in your eyes -- then your life is forever changed. You see something that you can't unsee."  link

I love several aspects of that quote...but note how we he channeled epistemology through seeing.
As we found it on the last album,  (and in Stephen Webb's classic),  a "sound" epistemology is perhaps most fundamental   But even though we DO walk by blind faith and not by sight (maybe the sight is via sound):

  Once he knew about that, he couldn't unknow it.

                You see something that you can't unsee.

The End of Space and Time? - Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf

Overview

Robbert Dijkgraaf's focus is on string theory, quantum gravity, and the interface between mathematics and particle physics, bringing them together in an accessible way, looking at sciences, the arts and other matters.

Extra lecture materials

PDF Presentation for "The End of Space and Time?"

Listen to the lecture

More on Prodigal Pirates

Video of Kester Berwin, Peter Rollins and Barry Taylor (for context, see previous post:

Prodigal Pirate):

 
Pirates and Prodigals from Fuller Seminary on Vimeo:
A conversation between Kester Brewin, Peter Rollins, and Barry Taylor on the tragedy of the pirate and prodigal son archetypes and what this means for the future church. The discussion drew from ideas presented in Kester Brewin’s latest book, Mutiny! Why We Love Pirates, and How They Can Save Us.

The Berry Center for Lifelong Learning
andThe Inititive for the Church and Contemprary Culture
present: Pirates and Prodigals


Travis Auditorium
on the campus of Fuller Theologcial Seminary

William T. Cavannaugh, “A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House: the Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State”

PDF here