As we continue our deep theological study and noble quest for insight into the radiant Truth, I think it is important to remember what J.I. Packer writes in Knowing God: The fact we have to face is this: that if we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it is bound to go bad on us. It will
08.20.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
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I have a problem: I’m terribly prideful. When I sit down to consider my life, I’m filled with a sort of warm, complacent glow at the thought that I’m such a brilliant, lovely person, with such a brilliant, lovely future ahead of me. And this self-satisfaction often distresses me, because I kno
08.5.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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When I was about fifteen, I wrote an essay entitled “The gods are unjust” about Oedipus Rex, the ancient play by Sophocles – it is one of the great Greek Tragedies, replete with chorus and tragic hero. It was my first tragedy. Oedipus was condemned by Apollo’s prophecy, related by an oracle,
06.28.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
No CommentsWell, if you just look at this girl, you would quite easily come to the conclusion that she is liberal. I mean, come on. I wear flowers in my hair. I steal unnamed flowers from old churchyards and leave them at the feet of sleeping homeless people. I'm a writer and an artist and well, I went to Harv
06.8.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
2 CommentsSeveral times, people have asked me how their lives would change if they became Christians - besides the whole church thing, of course. (Conversely, many Christians wonder what would change if they left the faith.) "Why do I need Christianity? I'm good enough on my own." Such seems to be the unstat
07.31.2009| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
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