Monthly Archives: July 2008

Postmodernism just modernism on it’s head?

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An interesting quote from Christianity Today.

“For don’t we live in a postmodern culture in which appeals to such apologetic arguments are no longer effective?  Rational arguments of the truth of theism are no longer supposed to work.  Some Christians therefore advise that we should simply share our narrative and invite people to participate in it.

“This sort of thinking is guilty of disastrous misdiagnosis of contemporary culture.  The idea that we live in a postmodern culture is a myth.   In fact, a postmodern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable.  People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology; rather they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters of religion and ethics.  But, of course, that’s not postmodernism!  That’s just old-line verificationism, which held that anything you can’t prove with your five senses is a matter of personal taste.  We live in a culture that remains deeply modernist.”

Craig, William Lane.  “God is not dead yet”, Christianity Today, July 2008, p. 26.

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The latest Microsoft Windows update number!  I’ve been using automatic updating of Windows.  I’ve also been using Zone Alarm for a firewall.  Both of our computers blocked internet access after they were “automatically updated”.  An article on fixing the problem is available from Zone Alarm.  They even sent out emails to alert us to the problem.

Only problem?  Couldn’t get on the internet to check my email (thankfully I have other computers I can use)!

Adding more songs

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In May we recorded three songs.  Two months later we added another three.

Not full recordings, just scratch tracks. 

For those who read this blog regularly you will remember Wayne Gibson.  Last fall we released a full CD of original songs he had written.  Now we have an EP CD that would be nice to have ready to go in a few months.

But, time is often as much an enemy as it is a healer.  We are ready to work on a new release, but our schedules are a little “helter-skelter”.  Wayne is headed to Scotland in September.  I’m working on September plans to kick off the fall.

I listened to the songs.  Two are worship songs we have used in our church services.  One on the holiness of God and another on His greatness.  Other of the songs talk of a new day and heaven.  The theme of God pervades.

Maybe that’s why I like them.  Not just for the melody, but also for the subject.  Last night the words attached themselves to me.  Accompanied by haunting melodies, I’m still being pursued by these compositions even as I write this blog entry. 

Perhaps theses songs will catch you one of these days.  I hope so . . . but first we’ve got a bit more work to do.

Another passing

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Yesterday Addie Kinsgley passed away.

Yesterday we were away at another funeral.  This morning I received word that Addie had died.  Her passing was peaceful, her daughter related to me.  That was what she was seeking for.  One of my last conversations with her was exploring that exact thing!

Her funeral is scheduled for this Saturday.

Addie was a recent friend.  She was not a parishioner of the church I pastor.  She did attend some of our senior’s functions.  I had become acquainted with her at that point, but the real conversations were only recently. 

When she was admitted to hospital this last round, I stopped in just to say “Hi”.  She was in a deep conversation with one of her daughters, so I came back later.  Shared and prayed with her.  We seemed to click!  My visits with Addie were always enjoyable. 

And now, a last visit this Saturday?  Only with a lifeless body at a funeral service. 

I talked with Addie and she assured me of her belief in Jesus and the blessed hope to come.  I’m trusting in the future to see her again.  So, maybe this isn’t the “last visit” after all!