Evangelicalism and Spiritual Formation

This is an interesting post relating the label evangelical to the area of spiritual formation. What are your thoughts?

Interview with Jonathan Edwards

This is a very clever, interesting read, that can challenge a lot of assumptions of Edwards.

Holism

This is an interesting article on looking at the holism of the Gospel and people often ignoring the whole Gospel and the whole church. It's a different use of holism than I had discussed earlier.

Bible

I think this is a very good post emphasizing that we need to approach the Bible from much more than just a cognitive, intellectual perspective and recognize the poetry of it all.

Science and Religion, Part 2

It sounds like others are also sick of the science-religion debate (although I'm not sure it's exactly the same debate I mentioned earlier, but probably the whole idea is similar).

Tradition

I saw Fiddler on the Roof at the Orange County Performing Arts Center a few weeks ago. One of the classic songs is called Tradition, and as Tevye says, he doesn't know why they do a lot of what they do. It's just tradition.

As most of my close friends know, I am not a fan of tradition, particularly tradition for tradition's sake. I think actions need to be meaningful. Traditions can be very meaningful when you understand why they are there and when they still have relevant meaning. Yet so often in life (related to spirituality and not), we take actions simply based on tradition. And I think that is the cause of a lot of problems and crises in faith eventually.

What do you think? Is there value in tradition for tradition's sake. When is tradition useful/good?

Homosexuality

This blog is focused on trying to engage the struggles and questions we face throughout life, pursuing the answers, but not necessitating that we have firm answers. This article on recent films relating to homosexuality seems to do exactly that: Struggling with questions. So I thought it would be worth sharing it. Anyone seen any of these films?