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Brian Miller Jun 28, 2010
In the previous chapters, N.T. Wright describes what he calls “echoes of a voice” in people’s souls related to our longing for justice, spirituality, relationships, and beauty. These echoes point to a reality beyond themselves, but they do not clearly reveal the true source. ...
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Tiffany Villager Jun 21, 2010
In chapter four N.T. Wright takes us further in the journey toward Christianity with a discussion of beauty. He contends that in our want for justice and our thirst for spirituality, we have a desire to capture and often put our own stamp on the definition of beauty. Beauty, like justice, slips ...
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Dan Simpson Jun 14, 2010
We were made to be in relationships and we need a community to belong to.
Just look at the popularity of relational web portals like MySpace, facebook, twitter, and match.com! They reveal how much our culture (us included) does not want to be alone. We find a lot of meaning in our “circles ...
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Debbie Smith Jun 05, 2010
N.T. Wright continues his reflection on qualities of our human experience and public conversation that provide clues about our design and purpose. Following his observations about our longing for justice in chapter one, he turns to the subject of our hunger for spirituality. He tells the ...
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Scott Kammerer Jun 01, 2010
N.T. Wright describes in the first chapter of his book something we all feel – that as much as we all believe that the world should be peaceful and just, we just can’t seem to make it happen. In fact much of the time we can’t even live to those standards ourselves, much less ...
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