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		<title>LOVING OUR OH SO COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 21:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More from Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss—a book that has something underlineable (not a word until now) on every page. So I’ll just pick one underlining at random: “Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that we are distant from God and then seek to make that distance into an intense experience” (108-09). CS Lewis says something parallel when he talks about us treasuring the thing that keeps us from God because it is so familiar and comfortable. And I take my stab at exploring the phenomenon in The Skeptical ...]]></description>
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		<title>GOD’S CALL TO UNBELIEF?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m reading with pleasure the poet Christian Wiman’s memoir, My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer. With a poet’s gift for fresh words to express old ideas (“the hive-like certainties of churches”), he ruminates over his unlikely return to faith after decades away. At one point he says, “Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.” I underlined the sentence, not sure whether it was quite right, but knowing he was on to something.
The maybe not quite right part for me is ...]]></description>
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		<title>GOD AS DJ: SENDING OUT THE MUSIC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picking up where I left off in the last post, I want to expand a bit on a metaphor I came across a while back in reading Barbara Hagerty’s Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality. She talked to a lot of brain scientists, including many who believe that God and things of the spirit are entirely a creation of the human brain. She found a number of other scientists who didn’t think agree with this conclusion, however, and the metaphor she presented was of the brain ...]]></description>
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		<title>GOD AND THE BRAIN—OR BRAIN GOD?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the real advantages of not professionally professing literature any longer is expanding my range of reading. I have decided to get just educated enough about brain research to be dangerous, hence my latest Amazon order: books on Flannery O’Connor, Emily Dickinson, and the relation between brain science, psychology, and religion.
I’ll report on the latter if I find the book interesting, but in the meantime I thought I’d stake out my pre-enlightenment position, just so I can show how much I’ve grown once the experts clue me in.
A lot ...]]></description>
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		<title>THE IMAGINARY VS THE IMAGINATIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.wordtaylor.com/archives/896</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lewis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m reading Alister McGrath’s new critical biography of C.S. Lewis (thanks to Mavis for the signed copy!). I was not sure that we needed another bio of Lewis, but am finding it useful and insightful because he engages Lewis’s writing more fully than the other bios, sort of a cross between “the facts” of earlier bios and the account of Lewis’s intellectual development in Alan Jacob’s The Narnian. I recommend it.
One of the ideas McGrath discusses is the distinction in Lewis between “imaginary” and “imaginative.” The imaginary is something “that ...]]></description>
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		<title>THEOLOGIANS, CORONERS, AND WORLD RELIGIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DanielTaylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[exclusivism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think of good books as time bombs. They sit there in the stack ticking away, waiting patiently for you to pick them up so they can explode in your mind.
I finally picked up a book that I bought probably twenty years ago. It doesn’t rise to the level of a “good book,” but it was a useful one. It was about how Christianity should think about other religions. I give it credit for being very fair in laying out the various positions—from so-called “exclusivism” (I object to the term because ...]]></description>
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		<title>NOAH, MARILYNNE ROBINSON, AND DROWNING MOTHERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housekeeping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave a talk yesterday, at the invitation of the Bethel University art and English departments, on Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping. I called her, for me, a “wow” writer, meaning that I find myself frequently pausing after reading a passage and saying, sometimes out loud, “wow.” Here is an example:
“In the newness of the world God had perhaps not Himself realized the ramifications of certain of His laws, for example, that shock will expend itself in waves . . . . Cain became his children and their children and theirs, ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Skeptical Believer Lives!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce that the book I have been using as an excuse for not doing any profitable work the last few years is now available. The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist is available on Amazon. To give you an idea of what it’s about, here is the material from the back cover:
Can someone be both skeptical and a believer? In what sense is having faith like living in a story? And what, for heaven’s sake, is an Inner Atheist?
These are just a few of ...]]></description>
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		<title>“You Can’t Prove That!”&#8211;“Woof”</title>
		<link>http://www.wordtaylor.com/archives/803</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the season of Wise Men, I’d like to say a word in praise of Charles Schultz, philosopher-theologian-cartoonist and wise man.In one of the Peanuts cartoons, Linus is sitting in the pumpkin patch with Snoopy, the place Linus does his best thinking (and hoping). He asks Snoopy a question:
“What would you say if you were the only one in the world who believed something and everyone else thought you were crazy?”
Snoopy’s reply:
“Woof!”
I feel like that some days. Keenly aware that most of my views and values are minority views, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>FAITH AND SUSPENSE: LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY</title>
		<link>http://www.wordtaylor.com/archives/799</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Following is another excerpt from a book I'm finishing up, The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist. (It will be available in January and I'll probably post if for free on this website.) The italicized words WITHIN parentheses is the voice of my Inner Atheist, who comments freely throughout the book on what I say. Non-italicized material within parentheses is plain old me speaking.]
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We are always coming in on something that is already going on.
Eugene Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant
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Wait for the Lord;
be strong and courageous
and wait for the ...]]></description>
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