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ACBM: Perspective

Posted on July 1, 2013 by ehurst

As part of the introduction, I propose the following as a broader explanation of the perspective and thesis of the course. Part of the idea is to offer readers and students every opportunity to decide this is not for them, … Continue reading →

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ACBM: Getting a Little More Serious

Posted on June 30, 2013 by ehurst

This is my current version of the introduction to the course: Objective: This course offers a comparative cultural anthropology study of the unique intellectual approach from which the Christian Bible is written. It presumes the student is Western and is … Continue reading →

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ACCM: The Cerebral Point of Failure

Posted on June 13, 2013 by ehurst

Re: A Course in Christian Mysticism (ACCM) One of my favorite professors back at OBU in the late 1970s was Dr. Rowena Strickland. She knew the Word better than most, even among a Baptist college faculty. She learned it all … Continue reading →

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TMOC 5: Background

Posted on October 12, 2012 by ehurst

(Offered as the proposed fifth chapter to our Open Source book, The Mind of Christ.) In Western minds, there are two concepts typically regarded as mutually exclusive: God’s sovereignty and human free will. At the very least it requires mental … Continue reading →

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Open Line Thursday

Posted on October 3, 2012 by ehurst

I’m posting this early to give folks a head start. Here’s hoping some of you have questions to ask. If you aren’t sure what’s appropriate, I would prefer you err on the side of taking risks. Simple stuff I’ll post … Continue reading →

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Taste and Art

Posted on September 29, 2012 by ehurst

I know what I like. You can lock me in a chair where I have to listen to your favorite music, but even after days and weeks of this torture, I’m not likely to appreciate your taste in music. Humans … Continue reading →

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The Failure of Pastoral Care

Posted on September 18, 2012 by ehurst

In my rebuke against most churches, one thing seems increasingly common: an utter lack of genuine pastoral involvement in broken lives. Let’s peel back the layers here. On the one hand, Scripture assumes a church stands to replace the lost … Continue reading →

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Broken Civilization: Public Education

Posted on September 9, 2012 by ehurst

I was blessed. When I passed through American teacher education, I already had an education and a divine calling to pay attention to underlying issues. It took me awhile to orient properly on what those issues are, but I eventually … Continue reading →

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Game and False Guilt

Posted on May 15, 2012 by ehurst

She was provocative. There are ways of being flirty and cute without going too far. Plenty of young ladies manage it. She didn’t get that. But ask her, and she would have insisted she was a good girl. Perhaps she … Continue reading →

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Dark Days, Bright Soul — 3

Posted on April 21, 2012 by ehurst

When hatred sleeps and brighter passions awake and human differences fade to shadows, then sanity surfs the winds to take bright souls to worlds no one knows. It was not exactly a routine, but predictable enough he could save up … Continue reading →

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