Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

I began reading The God Delusion today. According to Richard Dawkins I am relusional. “Relusion” is a word suggested to Dawkins to replace the word “delusion” in the title of his book. Dawkins hopes the word relusion will catch on and be used to describe delusion when it is caused by religion.
Religious delusion = [...]

“The man who is proud of an abstruse and technical doctrine, difficult to acquire and acquired by few, may be proud in the same way as another man who is pleased with a sweet religious ignorance that makes him feel complacently superior to all learning.”
Thomas Merton
The Ascent to Truth
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Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, [...]

Binding and Loosing
Jesus gave his disciples power: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom…” (Matt 16 and 18). Bell sees this as a gift that keeps on giving, reaching into our time and into our lives. “If we take Jesus seriously,” he says, “and actually see it as our responsibility to [...]

Trampoline vs. Brickworld
The opposite of Bell’s trampoline metaphor of faith is what he calls “brickworld”. In brickworld, “you spend a lot of time talking about how right you are. Which of course leads to how wrong everybody else is. Which then leads to defending the wall.” In describing the structure of Brickworld Bell says,
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What is lost?
Ultimately the question raised by the quote is this: What do we lose if we lose the virgin birth?
I will attempt to answer it: We lose Jesus. We lose his divinity. We lose his claims about himself and the claims of the apostles about him, and that has infinite and eternal consequences. But [...]

Words and coffee, the best things in life are free and $1.55 respectively. “Going for coffee” is a new thing for me; I’ve never been a ‘let’s go for a coffee’ guy but I’m trying to be one now, because I can see the positive effects.
We went on vacation a couple of weeks ago and [...]

Noted futurist John Naisbitt is ready to give up the secrets of his trade. The author of Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 has proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate prognosticators of our hi-tech world. In this book he reveals the 11 “mindsets”- or processes of thinking – that enabled him to make such [...]

The Good
I commend Bell for encouraging an eschatological shift from a “when we get over yonder” to a “let’s bring heaven here” theology. He would do well, however, to remember that the previous generation was not wrong in longing for heaven, but rather in making this longing the dominant theological sentiment. Let’s not [...]

So there was this quote making its rounds on the internet from a book called “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith” written by Rob Bell. (I say ‘making its rounds’ because the internet is a series of tubes… in case you didn’t know. Listen to the whole thing – it’s worth it) Bell sets up [...]