Some thoughts on grace and the new LEGO movie come from Michael Belote, author of the wonderful reboot:Christianity blog and author of Rise of the Time Lords, doubtless the best (review here) geeky intro to Christian doctrine available. Something weird is happening in Hollywood. Just four months ago, the world was introduced to Frozen, a children’s movie […]
Mockingbird at the Movies: Sin and Redemption in Frozen
This reflection on redemption ‘in practice’ in Disney’s movie Frozen comes from our friend Michael Belote, first posted on his blog Reboot Christianity. (And while we’re on the subject of illustrations/examples for Christianity, we couldn’t recommend more highly his Geek’s Guide to Christianity.) Every year on Black Friday, my wife goes shopping and the boys […]
Spiritual Entropy, or: The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Fallacy of Self-Help Christianity
We couldn’t be more excited to have another guest post from Michael Belote of Reboot Christianity. This time, he talks about “spiritual entropy” – the idea that our lives tend to become less organized or “together” as time goes on: Scientists have a crucial insight about the world when they talk about entropy, that is, […]
Why My Back Door Still Isn’t Fixed, or: Project Management and the Human Condition
For those of us wondering why our back door isn’t fixed, ex-project manager and Mockingbird friend Michael Belote of Reboot Christianity offers a reflection on project management and the spiritual condition: When I was going for my graduate degree in engineering, one of the things we studied was project management. Afterwards, I served as a […]
Fat Children Took My Life
A provocative piece on the obesity epidemic via Slate’s new Hive project, in which author Daniel Engbar compiles a startling amount of data about the ineffectiveness of ‘tough love’ when it comes to dealing with this issue. In fact, the evidence of “the law increasing the trespass” (Romans 5:20) is pretty egregious here. A classic […]
John Calvin on Self-Knowledge
From my favorite new blog, Reboot Christianity, a quick quote from the first chapter of Calvin’s Insitutes:
“Without knowledge of self, there is no knowledge of God. Our wisdom, insofar as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.”
p.s. I highly, highly recommend their series on Cognitive Biases in Christians.
