Category Archives: Discipleship

On Learning to Speak Christian

In a commencement address (“Speaking Christian”) for Eastern Mennonite Seminary delivered May 1, 2010, Stanley Hauerwas says that “one of the essential tasks of those called to the ministry in our day is to be a teacher. In particular, you are called to be a teacher of language.” Later he returns to this theme: The …

May 29, 2011 – 6:46 am | By Steve | Posted in Discipleship | Comments Off

Living for – ourselves, or God and others?

In his post, “Contradicting the World” (Brian Hamilton – Raids on the Unspeakable) Brian quotes Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship (p.244): Christians are to remain in the world, not because of the God-given goodness of the world, nor even because of their responsibility for the course the world takes. They are to remain in the world solely for …

January 6, 2009 – 8:53 pm | By Steve | Posted in Dietrich bonhoeffer, Discipleship | Comments Off

Forming the people of God

“Preaching is not a virtuoso performance but the language of the church that accompanies the laborious formation of a new people.” —Richard Lischer, A Theology of Preaching: The Dynamics of the Gospel (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2001), 79Posted by Halden at Inhabitatio Dei

May 14, 2008 – 12:07 pm | By Steve | Posted in Church Life, Discipleship, Preaching | Comments Off

Turbulence

Flight of Passage-a Memoir, by Rinker Buck (Hyperion, 1997) is proving to be a delightful read. Henry Kisor (The Chicago Sun-Times) calls it “Huckleberry Finn meets The Spirit of St. Louis” and he gets it right. The book is the account of two young sons of an old barnstormer who at 14 and 16 fly …

September 25, 2007 – 2:58 pm | By Steve | Posted in Discipleship | Comments Off