Book | Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard
Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard I must confess my bias and internal struggle before I begin a review of this book. God used this book to move me from the mega-church experience to the house church experience in 2002. I...
Book | Spirituality and Theology: Christian Living and the Doctrine of God by Philip Sheldrake
Spirituality and Theology by Philip Sheldrake This book is a gold mine for my research. Sheldrake connects the contemporary study of Christian Spirituality directly to the Social Trinity. He also provides an excellent historical summary of why spirituality and...Tisdell on Whiteness
This is a section from Exploring Spirituality in Adult and Higher Education. Tisdell addresses the fact that white people in the United States are generally blind to culture, like a fish is unaware of water. A path to spiritual transformation is to wrestle with white...
Book | Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education by Elizabeth Tisdell
Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education by Elizabeth Tisdell My Notes… Assumptions about Spirituality: spirituality and religion are not the same, but for many people they are interrelated spirituality is an awareness and honoring of...Read moreThe sin, the error, is not our hunger for knowledge, –and the way back to Paradise is not via intentional ignorance (despite some latter-day Christian claims). Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden because of the kind of knowledge they reached for–a knowledge that distrusted and excluded God. Their drive to know arose not from love but from curiosity and control, from the desire to possess powers belonging to God alone. They failed to honor the fact that God knew them first, knew them in their limits as well as their potentials. In their refusal to know as they were known, they reached for a kind of knowledge that always leads to death. (To Know as We Are Known, p. 25)