Francis Schaeffer is one of the giants of 20th century evangelicalism. He founded the L’Abri Fellowship and helped to forge the alliance between American Christianity and political conservatism.
Frank Schaeffer, his son, is another story.
Frank began his career working for his father, but lived to turn on the movement Francis had created. He converted to Greek [...]
Tags: Christian conservatism, Christian freedom, Frank Schaeffer
The following is an excerpt from a paper (The Politics of Pilgrimage) that I’ll be presenting at Wheaton this Saturday. Most of the paper is literary criticism, but this one section sets the stage for the theme I tease out of the literature I engage—pilgrimage as an interpretive category for the Christian life.
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Tags: centrality, dissemination of knowledge, grand visions, human society, literary criticism, pilgrimage, political purpose, political vision, tower of babel, wheaton
This morning was the first instance of our experiment in communal prayer and meditation. I almost forgot! But one of the brotherhood stopped by my room a little before 10:00 to ask if we could do it together. Already the value of accountability is making itself known.
It was strange feeling our way toward an appropriate [...]
Tags: accountability, brother, brotherhood, chaff, communal prayer, discipline, disintegration, god, green leaf, implantation, prayer and meditation, prosperity, psalm 1, unity
I concluded the last essay by suggesting that everyone should take time out to ask themselves why they get up in the morning. Clearly this question only had tangential relevance to my main thesis in that essay, which had to do with Marcus Aurelius’s exemplary clarity in setting up an objective or ideal pattern for [...]
Tags: Death, divine providence, epicureans, marcus aurelius, material universe, meditations, moral agent, moral behavior, moral reasoning, moral vision, self analysis, stoic
This is the second part of a series about Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. The series is introduced here.
One of the most popular articles on one of the most popular self-help websites is entitled How To Become An Early Riser. Steve Pavlina has gotten a lot of mileage from that article—and it’s not because he tapped a [...]
Tags: ants, bees, conviction, dawn, early riser, labour, marcus aurelius, meditations, moral principle, self help websites, spiders, steve pavlina, stoicism
