A Thinking Reed – Page 11 – "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

A Thinking Reed

Mavis Staples, “Jesus Wept”

May 16, 2014
All truth is God’s truth

I liked this post from Rachel Held Evans in which she rebuts critics who say that those who propose revisions to traditional church teachings are merely trying to “conform to the world.” She points out that many of the calls for change on matters like gender roles, the relationship between science and the Bible, and…

May 15, 2014
Staple Singers, “When Will We Be Paid”

May 9, 2014
The Clash, “The Equaliser”

May 2, 2014
Getting by without infallibility

An exaggerated or inaccurate view of Scripture is not a high view of Scripture, it is just a wrong view of Scripture. A high view of Scripture takes the Bible seriously, while also taking its historical context and the humanity of its authors seriously. A high view of Scripture is held by those who actually…

May 2, 2014
Buyer’s remorse, reader’s guilt

When I was young–particularly when I was in college and grad school–I had a lot of time to read. Hours upon hours if I wanted to. What I didn’t have was a lot of money to buy books. And these were the pre-Amazon days when it wasn’t easy to come by any book they didn’t…

April 30, 2014
Black Sabbath, “Warning”

“Sabbath’s genius was finding the hidden malevolence in the blues, and then bludgeoning the listener over the head with it.” (source)

April 25, 2014
Midnight Oil, “Outbreak of Love”

I was listening to this album earlier, and this song struck me as fitting for today.

April 18, 2014
Beastie Boys, “So What’Cha Want”

April 11, 2014
Is the welfare state Christian?

There’s been some back-and-forth in the comments to this post about whether Christianity is really compatible with social democracy (or we might just as accurately say welfare-state liberalism). Does Christian ethics require provision for the poor to take place at the local level and/or through private organizations rather than being carried out by the federal…

April 10, 2014