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Wonder List

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The Big Idea

A running list of random things I am wondering about right now.

  • How do we actually have a confessional position on worship and practice that is not in the extreme of imposition of tradition on consciences or the prideful jettisoning of heritage. What is Liturgy

Britannica

The word technology is a combination of the Greek technē, which means “art, craft,” and logos, which means “word, speech.”

  • What is the proper use of a church library in a digital, AI drive, “easy” data access culture. The Purpose of a Church Library

  • Grammar, logic and rhetoric as core goals of education (even for emotive based content) Trivium Learning

  • How to we frame our self understanding based on what we are before we jump to basing things on what we can do? A Creature Among Machines, My Thoughts on Cosmology, A Grounded Cosmology and a Creaturely Anthropology

  • What it is to be human who has an innately categorical mind. We live within categories that make choices of how to world holds together Categories are never lossless but no categories is impossible and would be utter chaos Cycles of certainty and uncertainty in categories A Categorical Mind

  • It seems like church fellowship has been over condensed in many circles in two directions. There is “all about love” that ends up becoming a “you do you” mentality that is not actually any kind of true or meaningful working and living together on shared beliefs or confession. Or there is a puritanical and almost legalistic focus on doctrine and confession that is so focused on doctrinal purity that there is no room for real living breathing human relationships. It basically becomes its own kind of group think that is unable to challenge and be challenged by others in a loving and constructive way. Confessions and Decentralization, Cooperative Learning

  • Thinking of the idea of facing east as it relates to being in sync with creation. and the danger of worshiping creation rather than creator but also the danger of being divorced from creation in favor of our own ideas of prosperity and health. Facing North or East

  • Sabbath The Biblical Rhythm of Time and Rest the idea that we have really messed up the idea of rest and sabbath in our culture with it basically meaning “time to do whatever you want” where sabbath had a clear focus on not doing exactly what you want but taking time to focus on God and communion with Him. Rhythm Reset

  • I desperately want to get better at Storytelling and the way that emotion, meaning and content are all transmitted through a well told story that actually affects the way the hearer things and feels about the world. Story Questions and Existential Questions Deeply connected with this is our answer to the question Why Learn

  • How can our local churches be connected and work together in meaningful ways that transcend the island mentality of congregations?

  • What does it look like to have clarity of doctrine but also to be grounded in the story and especially the poetry of Scripture Grounded by Story and Psalms, Grounded in Poetry, Clarity in Doctrine

    • Doctrine is the seek of wisdom, not it’s flower. Wisdom’s flower are the words of God himself.

  • How can the Church operate outside of the set market and cultural dynamics. To look out for the oppressed in ways that no other group will or can?

  • Mental claustrophobia. We live in a world where we are increasingly told to live in a smaller mental frame than ever before. The loop speed of data, and length of content are being pushed smaller and faster as if that is an improvement. When it seems to rather be more claustrophobic.

  • AI, Subscription tech, etc. are all setting up a Knowledge and capability gate keeping system. A kind of digital serfdom. Article: The Enclosure of the Human Psyche - by L. M. Sacasas

    • All this leads to a strange separation from community, the self and even the body. A kind of disembodied carnality.

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