Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer from May 2006 Nevertheless, young people do not feel disenchanted, lost or alienated in a meaningless world. “Instead, the data indicated that they found meaning and significance in the reality of everyday life, which the popular arts helped them to understand and imbibe.” Their creed could be defined as: [...]
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iMonk Classic: Enough Courage to Go Around
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Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer from May 2008 If the truth about Christianity turned out to be very different from what we’d been taught as young Christians by people we look up to as mentors and authorities, would we stand up and tell the truth? Would we make the turn and go the other [...]
iMonk Classic: God doesn’t offer explanations
18 Apr by
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer from October 2008 Note from CM: This was posted on another blog Michael started, called “Jesus-Shaped Spirituality”. • • • The problem with theological types- like yours truly- is they think that God has explained himself. In the Bible. In Jonathan Edwards. In the Lutheran Confessions. In the CRCC. [...]
iMonk Classic: Icebergs, Onions and Why You’re Not As Simple As You Think
11 Apr by
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer from April 2008 Note from CM: Yesterday I had my interview with a counselor about the results of the psychological testing that is part of the ordination process in the ELCA. More about that later. It brought to mind some of Michael’s insightful writings about his own journey of [...]
iMonk Classic: Special Needs Members OR How I Was Right and Wrong About Baptizing An Autistic Boy
4 Apr by
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer from October 2009 Note from CM: In the Lutheran tradition, the debate described in this post would not have occurred. I present this today because (1) we have had some discussion this week about children with special needs, and (2) many of our readers come from credo-baptist traditions where [...]
iMonk Classic: God of the Hubble Universe
30 Mar by
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer from June 2005 One of my life-long loves is astronomy. I’ve owned some very nice telescopes, and I’ve spent many a clear, cold winter night out on someone’s farm, looking at the glories of the heavens. Since I was a child of the golden age of the space program, [...]
iMonk Classic: The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism (5)
25 Mar by
Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism, conclusion A classic Michael Spencer iMonk post from Nov. 2008 NOTE: On Sundays in Lent, we will run these classic essays from Michael Spencer on the evangelical wilderness. I now come to the last post in this series on The Unresolved Tensions of [...]
iMonk Classic: The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism (4)
18 Mar by
Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism, part 4 A classic Michael Spencer iMonk post from Nov. 2008 NOTE: On Sundays in Lent, we will run these classic essays from Michael Spencer on the evangelical wilderness. I am continuing my series on The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism. Here is part [...]
iMonk Classic: The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism (3)
11 Mar by
Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism, part 3 A classic Michael Spencer iMonk post from Nov. 2008 NOTE: On Sundays in Lent, we will run these classic essays from Michael Spencer on the evangelical wilderness. I am continuing my look at the sources of disillusionment within evangelicalism. This will [...]
iMonk Classic: The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism (2)
4 Mar by
Lent 2012: A Journey through the Wilderness The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism, part 2 A classic Michael Spencer iMonk post from Nov. 2008 NOTE: On Sundays in Lent, we will run these classic essays from Michael Spencer on the evangelical wilderness. I am continuing my series on the unresolved tensions of evangelicalism. Today, I want [...]
