Category Archives: Saved Blog Comments

Going Meta on the John Suk Conversation

Posted on September 13, 2012 by PaulVK

I wrote this one for CRC-Voices as well but thought that others might benefit from it as well.

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My Response to the Myth of Jesus’ Return by John Suk

Posted on September 8, 2012 by PaulVK

First let me say that John’s blog post is indicative of what I like about John. He’s got guts to tell us what he’s thinking and to open up conversations that are dicey and risky especially for ministers. This was … Continue reading →

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Wrestling with Moralism in Judging Katy Perry

Posted on July 29, 2012 by PaulVK

This is a response to a blog post on Christian responses to Katy Perry. Every moral system has shibboleths they use as boundary markers. We use a person’s words or behavior to locate them in our conceptual grid. How do … Continue reading →

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Getting Burned without Scars of the Self

Posted on June 30, 2012 by PaulVK

Nice blog post by Amy Young on “How to treat a burn when it’s relational” I left this comment. I read her blog after working on my Heidelberg Catechism on the Fifth Commandment. I’m teaching the Heidelberg Catechism this week … Continue reading →

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Why “Anything you want it to be for” is not a good answer to the question “What is marriage for”

Posted on May 11, 2012 by PaulVK

Following up my my previous blog post on marriage and on Facebook conversations about the question. You said “you cannot define what a marriage is for for everyone” but that is in fact the purpose of US law. You don’t … Continue reading →

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Why Felt Compassion Isn’t Quite Enough

Posted on May 2, 2012 by PaulVK

Kristen Tennant on “Religion without stories…” (the comments are good too) It follows news reports on a study that suggests highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than they are from dogma. In the comments on this posting someone … Continue reading →

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More on the Women at Classis Conversation

Posted on April 28, 2012 by PaulVK

Comments from me on the CRC Network Classis Blog on Classes that don’t seat women. Are you saying complementarianism is cultural?  I don’t know that we can have a conversation that asserts knowledge that transcends culture, not because culture cannot … Continue reading →

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Is the Bible a Human or Divine Product?

Posted on April 27, 2012 by PaulVK

I wrote this as a response to a posting on Calvin-In-Common on a reported conclusion of Marcus Borg that the Bible is a human product, not a divine one. Human product or a divine one? I couldn’t let that assertion … Continue reading →

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Christ, Culture and the Age to Come

Posted on April 24, 2012 by PaulVK

Wrote this as a response to a conversation in the comment thread on Rachel Held Evan’s posting on NT Wright’s book. Trying to illuminate the relationship via prepositions (Niebuhr’s book “Christ and Culture”) is handy but limited as you noted. … Continue reading →

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Should we imagine the Bible to be outside of culture?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by PaulVK

Authority is neither outside of Biblical authors, or their historical context, nor does it bequeath them with omniscience. (BTW Jesus is not a Biblical author. He IS the word of God already.) In Christian theology part of canon is related … Continue reading →

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