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Book Review: ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’ by Mark A. Noll
Preferring a narrowly defined gospel, why have so many American evangelicals in recent decades not invested more in intellectual pursuits? Mark A. Noll here in ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’ wants to know, and I hold that we should want to know along with him.
Open Gates, Friendly Fire, and a Table
Eventually, if we are serious about building anything—a household, a church, a friendship, a community, a culture—we have to concern ourselves with preservation. We have to ask what threatens the thing we are building, what belongs inside it, what does not, what needs repair, what needs correction, what needs protection, and what perhaps needs to…
Receive Without Worship; Correct Without Vandalizing
It’s too easy to criticize the brilliant filmmaker Christopher Nolan for rewriting The Odyssey.
The harder and more actionable question is what kind of inheritance I am handling with this podcast.
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Husband, father of ten, blogger, and author.
My name is Garrett Ashley Mullet, and I want to talk about everything.
Yes, Yahweh will give what is good,
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Links and Timestamps:
00:25 – Scripture Reading;
01:59 – Introduction – Turning 40 Soon and Two Adult Sons;
15:37 – Commentary on Psalm 85;
44:29 – Commentary on “Train” by TALK;
1:02:07 – Arthur Brooks on PBD—Mid-Life, Mentoring, and Metamorphosis;
1:21:50 – Good to Great by Jim Collins;
1:37:01 – The Culture Map by Erin Meyer;
2:17:41 – Three resulting paradoxes and a Conclusion:
Formation cannot stop at self-understanding. How do I wisely deploy these three paradoxes that have been formed in me?
o I am highly explicit, but highly contextualabout relationships.
o I am low in status-deference, but relativelyhigh in respect for legitimate authority.
o I am peace-seeking, but highly confrontationalwhen I believe principle or duty has been implicated.
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