Is sin passé? David Brooks and The Road to Character
I’m surprised at how much I am enjoying reading David Brooks’ motivational book, The Road to Character. Amazon classifies it in the “personal transformation/ self help” category, and knowing how flooded and shallow this market is, I am only reading it on the strong …
Bob Dylan – “I Contain Multitudes”
Bob Dylan has dropped two surprise songs in recent weeks. The first was the 17-minute ‘Murder Most Foul’ which has received mixed reviews. Sometimes a Dylan song grows on you, or on me at least, though I am not sure this one …
Open Classes
It is time for some Open Classes at Vose! All our classes are online this Semester, so we thought we could do Open Classes online as well. We don’t want anyone to miss out, and now you can join the class in …
ANZAC Day 2020
ANZAC day seems to have snuck up on us this year! So much has been happening in Australia and abroad with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that it’s been almost impossible to focus on what we would normally be doing at …
Pierre Maury on ‘Election and Faith’
In 1936 at the International Congress of Calvinist Theology conducted in Geneva to celebrate the 400-year anniversary of the first edition of Calvin’s Institutes, French preacher-theologian Pierre Maury presented a paper entitled ‘Election et Foi.’ Karl Barth would later recall that the …
Scripture on Sunday – Mark 14:1-11
Read Mark 14:1-11 I have been meditating on this passage for more than a week, through holy week and beyond! This is a wonderful story with multiple levels of meaning and insight. My focus in this post, however, concerns its message …
Remembering the Friday…
We are sometimes a little uncomfortable with Good Friday, and tend to rush past it to arrive at Easter Sunday as quickly as possible. Yet unless we feel the weight of the Friday, we will miss much of the mystery of Easter. …
A Good-Friday Prayer
Our Prayer: O Lord, our God: We have gathered this day in order to consider how You carried out Your good and strong will for the world and for us all by letting our Lord Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, become captive …
Meditation in a Toolshed: Doodling CS Lewis
At some time in the past I have read this little meditation by CS Lewis, probably after reading Kevin Vanhoozer’s meditation on CS Lewis’ meditation (“Meditation in a Postmodern Toolshed”). But having happened upon this fascinating exercise in ‘doodling’ Lewis, I decided …