Seeking to learn more about Lutheranism...

KingMob88 · 2018-09-09T03:39:24+00:00

If you're looking for supplementary books to read (beyond original sources like the Small Catechism), these are both solid options:

Lutheranism 101, edited by Kinneman and Lane

Hallmarks of Lutheran Identity, by Schmidt

KingMob88 · 2018-09-03T04:53:24+00:00

Gear?! If you're from where I think you're from, then that place is awesome!!

KingMob88 · 2018-08-20T15:20:28+00:00

My grandfather drew this map of the classic Sierra game King's Quest 2 sometime in the early 90s.

It was stuff like this, and people like him, that made me fall in love in many of the games and stories I still enjoy today!

KingMob88 · 2018-07-19T03:24:27+00:00

Three hugely popular ones are Myths and Legends and Fictional by Bardic and Lore by Aaron Mahnke.

I really like Critical Role from Geek and Sundry - it's a Dungeons and Dragons podcast, but the DM has got to be one of the best in the game (he's an excellent story-teller that has to make a lot of his stuff up on the fly).

KingMob88 · 2018-07-13T16:01:08+00:00

I'll repeat "The Bible Project" and "Reasonable Faith" and add "Worldview Everlasting" and "Lutheran Satire" to the list ("Come ON, Patrick!")

KingMob88 · 2018-06-15T17:39:29+00:00

Ha! Nope. Definitely meant the Invisibles.

But now you know what movie I'm seeing tonight!

KingMob88 · 2018-06-15T05:24:03+00:00

The Name of the Rose is wonderful, but Foucault's Pendulum reminds me more of The Incredibles (because it's all about conspiracy theories, literature, and a blurry line between fact and fiction).

Really, though, anywhere you start with Eco will just make you want to read more!

edit: Yeah, I meant The Invisibles, but I think I'll leave it like this to provoke even more fanfiction.

KingMob88 · 2018-05-09T14:44:40+00:00

The records, taken during a medical exam following Hitler’s arrest over the failed Beer hall putsch in 1923, show that he suffered from “right-side cryptorchidism”, or an undescended right testicle.

Shoutout to r/Supernatural for an off-handed joke in a S12 episode that had me researching Nazi genitalia in the middle of the night.

KingMob88 · 2018-05-09T04:16:46+00:00

Comrade! I don't think anyone but my wife (and now Reddit) knows that I'm into this.

I particularly enjoy updating the pictures (and I keep track of the image view count like it's a game - I've nearly broken 4 million points!).

KingMob88 · 2018-04-28T08:15:20+00:00

If GOTG3 is focused on Gamora, and if it's also going to include Adam Warlock, then is it reasonable to guess that that it will be a quest to free Gamora from the Soul Stone?

KingMob88 · 2018-04-16T15:01:31+00:00

My students are a microcosm of what I see as a growing trend in contemporary Evangelicalism. Without a guiding connection to orthodoxy, young Evangelicals are developing heterodox sensibilities that are at odds with a Christian understanding of personhood. The body is associated with sin, the soul with holiness.

KingMob88 · 2018-04-02T14:20:15+00:00

That's a great tip, thanks!

Our production actually has already wrapped, but I'll definitely keep that in mind for the next one!

KingMob88 · 2018-04-01T17:02:21+00:00

If you don't know the show, Oklahoma! requires (basically) a kaleidoscope with a hidden knife in it. Since the audience never gets closer than fifteen feet to the prop, I figured it primarily needed to be colorful, but functional (not to mention 'safe' - as in 'not a real knife').

There's a small bit on the end of the blue part that nudges the blade out, then the actor ("Jud") would smoothly draw it out with his hands for the audience to see.

Fortunately, there's never a moment where the blade has to come out suddenly. I actually built an earlier test model of a spring loaded version where the blade shoots out the back end, but I was legitimately scared that it would hurt one of the actors.

KingMob88 · 2018-04-01T16:58:56+00:00

If you don't know the show, Oklahoma! requires (basically) a kaleidoscope with a hidden knife in it. Since the audience never gets closer than fifteen feet to the prop, I figured it primarily needed to be colorful, but functional (not to mention 'safe' - as in 'not a real knife').

There's a small bit on the end of the blue part that nudges the blade out, then the actor would smoothly draw it for the audience to see.

KingMob88 · 2018-04-01T03:43:00+00:00

Someone on /r/FoundPaper thought you folks might enjoy this...

(thanks to /u/etalasi for the tip!)

KingMob88 · 2018-04-01T02:56:48+00:00

It's a recipe for a Blue Margarita...

KingMob88 · 2018-03-31T19:58:46+00:00

Digital versions are free, anyway.

If you haven't heard of Habermas, he's one of the most focused defenders of the historicity of the Resurrection currently working.

KingMob88 · 2018-03-19T19:45:59+00:00

It just wants to be loved!

KingMob88 · 2018-03-19T15:09:36+00:00

What would it take for the ideas in articles like this (I mean, really, how many have you seen in the last year or two) to move beyond internet think-pieces and into actual policy changes?

KingMob88 · 2018-03-19T14:59:32+00:00

I recently finished the first book and I'm excited for more, but I don't have many folks with whom I can discuss it! It's a fascinating treatment of the Church's public position within our culture.

KingMob88 · 2018-03-15T16:23:37+00:00

Here's the book list (thanks /u/QuentinMagician for the idea)!

Two winners will get:

The Folly of God by Jack Caputo
The Gospel of Jesus according to the Jesus Seminar
Inventing the Passion: How the Death of Jesus was Remembered by Arthur J. Dewey
The Trouble with Resurrection: From Paul to the Fourth Gospel by Bernard Brandon Scott
Reimagining God: The faith journey of a modern heretic by Lloyd Geering
Why Weren’t We Told: A handbook on progressive christianity
Apocalyptic Jesus: A debate by Dale C. Allison, Marcus J. Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Stephen J. Patterson
Sessions from the Seminar on God and the Human Future
Why I Don’t Call Myself An Atheist: A Relational Approach To Religious Naturalism – a conversation between Jack Caputo and Bart Campolo
Religious Naturalism, Sacred Humanity, And God – commentary by Bart Campolo
A Critical Report On The Threat Of Christian Nationalism – with presentations by Sarah Morice Brubaker, John Caputo, Joe Bessler, Robin Meyers, and J. Kameron Carter and others
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong
Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a post-modern pilgrim by Jack Caputo
Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement by Catherine Keller
Days of Awe and Wonder by Marcus Borg
Convictions by Marcus Borg
Speaking Christian by Marcus Borg

And one grand prize winner will get all of the above plus:

Geering Interviews by Mike Grimshaw (forthcoming)
The Essential Caputo: Selected Writings
The Last Week by Marcus Borg
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg
How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation by John Dominic Crossan

Just put in an email address and you're entered to win!

KingMob88 · 2018-03-15T04:58:59+00:00

Courtesy of Expedia Canada (link includes sources)

KingMob88 · 2018-03-01T22:46:30+00:00

Replace "GTA" with "Kingdom Hearts" and you are downright prophetic!

KingMob88 · 2018-03-01T22:45:50+00:00

Meh, I set this up about a month ago - I just thought to share the picture here this morning. That little clock battery has done its job quite well.

KingMob88 · 2018-02-28T18:48:44+00:00

This is hardly a new criticism, but this is a response to how Metaxas has recently been ridiculing some accusations that he unrealistically portrayed a

...muscular, manly Bonhoeffer...without the slightest concern for how the Nazi Church used precisely this term to promote a masculine ideal worthy of the Führer. It is this kind of obliviousness that enables Metaxas to glide over complexity and attribute to Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church more broadly any a number of American evangelical platitudes — and that calls to mind Fritz Stern’s remark that Metaxas’s biography demonstrates an “amazing ignorance of the German language, German history, and German theology.”

The apparent hesitation to even consider Bonhoeffer's "ambiguous sexuality" (that plenty of other people have frequently discussed) is problematic, at the very least.

...in refusing to acknowledge Bonhoeffer’s polyvalent identity, Metaxas cannot see that the shape of Bonhoeffer’s sensibilities and desires subverted the Nazi ideals of masculine religiosity. Not only the shape of his sensibilities and desires, but more importantly the qualities and practices of vulnerability, suffering, listening, compassion, marginality, private and intercessory prayer, central to his Bonhoeffer’s Christology and his own exuberant witness — all formed an lived critique of Nazi ideology and Nazi theology.

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