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The Art of Conversation 1
By
xscot mcknight
When the leaders of what is now called Emergent landed on the term “conversation” to describe itself, they landed on a loaded term. Why? Because “conversation” has a noble history and because not all Christians know how to “converse.” They know how to argue and denounce and affirm and confess and assert, but the art…
Reading (not
Lolita
) in Ixtapa
By
xscot mcknight
Well, you ask, what did we read while we were here? Kris and I begin a few months in advance planning our “vacation reading,” so we had more than a few books to choose from. My approach is to bring 8-10 books, hoping that I can get one done per day (while others are soaking…
Friday is for Friends
By
xscot mcknight
There are two uses of memory according to the 5th chp of Miroslav Volf’s The End of Memory. There is literal memory and exemplary memory. What we do with our memories is what matters most — do we “do” literal or exemplary with our memory?
The God Hypothesis 5
By
xscot mcknight
Where do we get our morals? Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, chps. 6-7, dedicates much ink to spilling out his theory of morals. He is bound to do two things: demonstrate that morals are an evolutionary deposit in humans (through natural selection) and prove that religious morals are madness.
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