http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/posts/2008/05/page/1/ Meditations on Jesus and our World en Vox Tue, 13 May 2008 16:51:04 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/denominational-renewal.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/denominational-renewal.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/denominational-renewal.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 13 May 2008 16:51:04 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398f964da0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398f964da0005-50si" alt="a jaguar" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Reading here about a conversation that's started up about renewing denominations, I'm struck with my initial sense of apathy: is there any hope for real denominational life? We're taught by professional theologians that denominations are a "must... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/denominational-renewal.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398e435dd0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> jaguars st. paul calling boundaries denominations presbyterianism http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/a-walkscore-urbanity.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/a-walkscore-urbanity.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/a-walkscore-urbanity.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 12 May 2008 22:17:56 -0700 Where I live, city officials and developers are pursuing something like a humane redevelopment of a rebirthed urban core. As a way to this goal, reviving a noble pedestrian existence has made the top of many lists. Such an existence is one in whic... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/a-walkscore-urbanity.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48cf783010002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> city environment koinonia pedestrian existence walkable urbanity social captial walkscore.com http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/defense-of-suburbia.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/defense-of-suburbia.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/defense-of-suburbia.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:03 -0700 Amid all the hoopla extolling our new urbanism, one down-to-earth mom defends suburbia here. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/defense-of-suburbia.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398f5df690005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> city lifestyle mothers suburbia http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 01 May 2008 09:36:12 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ced878d0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ced878d0002-50si" alt="the frog princess" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I love folklore. Lewis's conversion is spurred, I'm told, by a conversation with Tolkien in which the old mythmaker challenged Lewis's atheism/agnosticism with this idea: "Christianity is the One True Myth." This proverb makes all other myths bor... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/morning-is-wiser.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398ef1b2c0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> wisdom david story tolkien folklore cs lewis discipline psalm 119 future posts the frog princess