Hey guys this my reflection on the AFL content for Tuesday, Feb 27th. This week seems to be quite interesting. So far what he’s offering is a lot of the same stuff I learned and studied at Laidlaw in History. Today Rollins just offers a handful of quotes from some famous mystics early church, and of, what are referred… Read more →
Monthly Archives: February 2018
AFL Blog Week 3 Part 1: Christian Mysticism
Okay, first of all, let me say that I’m very interested in Christian mysticism. I know for some people the word “mysticism” and “mystic” or “mystical” sound new age-y, or airy fairy or whatever, but the Christian mystics have a profound place in our history, and I find studying them quite fascinating. That said, this may be hard for some of… Read more →
AFL Blog #2: God In A Box
These are my thoughts, replies, and reflections on what I took as the main thread/theme of Week 2 for AFL. They build off of last week’s deconstruction of a standardised, Western view of who or what God is, because the tendency is to put God in a box and make God out to be what we want God to be… Read more →
Reflections on Light and Darkness – Courtney’s message on the Lamp of the Body
Hello, and welcome to the Living Room Blog. Last night Courtney spoke to us in week 2 of our Lent series, Journey to the Cross, and he spoke on Luke 11:33-36 – the lamp of the body. The takeaway for me was, in the same way last week I spoke about acknowledging distractions, to acknowledge the areas in our lives… Read more →
AFL Blog #1 Introduction: The Object and the Obstacle
Hey everyone, this is my first blog reflecting on Peter Rollins’ Atheism for Lent series. It’s not quite what I was expecting – at least not the first week – and maybe it’ll be surprising to you too. Here’s sort of a summary of what the first week was about. Enjoy, and leave comments for discussion either here, or on… Read more →
Making your Lent Distraction List
Hey there! I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted a new blog, but we’re back! I wanted to add a few things building off of last night’s Living Room. If you weren’t there we kicked off our Lent series for this year – Journey to the Cross. We’ll be following Jesus and the disciples through Luke as they… Read more →