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The Screwtape Letters

January 11, 2009

I had an opportunity to go and see FPA Theatre Company’s production of C.S. Lewis‘ “The Screwtape Letters” a week ago. It is playing at the old Mercury Theater at 3745 N. Southport in Chicago. It stars Max McLean (who also co-adapted the script) as “His Abysmal Sublimity Screwtape,” and Karen Eleanor Wight as “Toadpipe,” [...]

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Chapter 2: The Creation of Sacred Spaces and Objects

April 13, 2008

The Creation of Sacred Spaces and Objects
Authors Frank Viola and George Barna record that a shift occurred in the late second and third centuries when Christians began reverencing their dead. Christians began to meet in two places… their homes and the cemetery. They picked up the pagan practice of having meals to honor the dead. [...]

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Chapter 2: From House Churches to Holy Cathedrals

April 13, 2008

From House Churches to Holy Cathedrals
As already stated in earlier posts, the early church believed that Jesus was the very presence of God and that the body of Christ (the church) constitutes his temple.
The authors of Pagan Christianity? point out that Jesus made some radical statements about the Temple in Jerusalem that angered the Jews [...]

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Chapter 2: Temples, Priests, and Sacrifices

April 13, 2008

Temples, Priests, and Sacrifices
Continuing in Chapter 2 of Pagan Christianity? authors Frank Viola and George Barna point out that the Old Testament Hebrews had a faith experience centered around the Temple, the priesthood and the sacrifice. But Jesus fulfilled all three of these by becoming the “Temple” made without hands, the final high priest who [...]

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Chapter 2: The Church Building – Inheriting the Edifice Complex

April 13, 2008

Well, here we go. Chapter Two of Pagan Christianity? deals with the first specific example of a pagan practice adopted by the church. That being the idea that the church is a building or a place. The authors point out the love affair we tend to have with brick and mortar. When Christians begin to [...]

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Other Blogs on “Pagan Christianity?”

April 10, 2008

I have a friend named Steve Tanner who has started reading “Pagan Christianity?” as well. Steve works for a non-profit Christian organization that equips and encourages those who are involved in Children’s ministry. He has posted about the book and “house churches” as it relates to children’s ministry online here: http://www.kidology.org/network/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5654&TPN=1

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Chapter One: Have We Really Been Doing It By The Book?

March 16, 2008

Frank and George open up this first official chapter of the book Pagan Christianity? with a story which reminds me of the way Patrick Lencioni writes his books. The fictional story style pulls you in and gives you a more or less “real life” scenario to relate to as the main idea is introduced. Their [...]

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My Introduction to “Pagan Christianity?”

February 23, 2008

I am just finishing reading a book that my father sent to me (Thanks, Dad!) and that has been one of the most challenging and enlightening books I’ve read in recent years. The impact it will have on me personally will take much more time to realize and digest because there are so many ways [...]

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More Books

February 15, 2008

I recently decided to re-read C.S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian (Narnia) since the movie of it is coming out in the not-too-distant future. It reminded me that for Peter and Susan, this was their last experience in Narnia. Only Edmund and Lucy came back one more time.
Then, my wife got me hooked on The Divine [...]

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Another Michael Crichton Fiction Masterpiece

December 23, 2007

As some of you know, I enjoy reading, especially good fiction. One author that I particularly like is Michael Crichton, of “Jurassic Park” fame. I think his book “State of Fear” is the best book I have read on the whole “global warming” – “climate change” controversy.
I am now reading his latest book called “Next” [...]

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