Geoffrey Holsclaw
“You can’t hold on to love and live by the law of the jungle…” John Mark McMillan Why love? Why hold on to love? And why should I love my enemy? Worldly-Love might perpetuate the species. But Enemy-Love might save our humanity. Because maybe Enemy-Love is what makes us human, the most human. And if human, then maybe […]
Why are human infants so helpless compared to other mammal? Is it because of our big brains? Kind of yes. And the reasons are essential for thinking about discipleship. I’m continuing with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’ll be going through one lesson a week building up […]
Peter, like many of us, had right information understood the wrong way. I’m not talking about head vs. heart knowledge. I’m talk about having our mind set on human ways instead of God’s ways. Lent is the time to transform what we think to be right knowledge into the right way of living (because we […]
The church so often numbs and ignores emotions. Is it any wonder people leave when they learn to feel, attend to, and even trust their emotions, when being “emotional” stops being, by definition, wrong? Do you see this happening? What are the consequences you see? And in 2020 people experienced multiple societal traumas. If churches […]
“Those just are my feeling. You can’t reason with them!” “Let’s be reasonable. Don’t let feelings get in the way of facts.” Both of those statements are wrong. They are wrong because they look at the brain as if it has different parts: an emotional part, and a reasonable part. But your brain is a […]
Two weeks ago I made a rather strong statement about the “Christian Nationalism” on display during the Capitol Assault that I deemed to be an idolatrous folk religion. Since then I have read two other statements that I think gives helpful context for what I argued (although I don’t entire agree with them). […]
Discipleship in the West is Broken. More INFORMATION doesn’t mean we have more KNOWLEDGE. And more knowledge doesn’t mean we have grown in WISDOM. Too many Christians in the West think that information leads to wisdom. But it doesn’t work that way. We have TOO MANY Christians reveling in their information and knowledge (about the […]
Following Jesus isn’t complicated. But that doesn’t mean it is easy. Some want to make Jesus complicate so that they don’t really have follow him closely. It’s an excuse for not really wanting to do the hard work of following Jesus. Others want to make following Jesus easy because they want to pretend that life […]
Ancient wisdom and the received science says we have three brains. But we don’t. So says Lisa Feldman Barrett. Or do we? This is what we are talking about as we continue with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’ll be going through one lesson a week building up to the launch […]