This will introduce a new feature here at Through a Glass Darkly, titled “Through the Looking Glass.” Through the Looking Glass is a semi-sort-of-regular round-up of recent blog posts I’ve found interesting. Enjoy.
Making room for mystery: Today I discovered a delightful site called Tabletalk. It’s the blog of Presbyterian pastor Craig S. Williams, whom I envy greatly because he has more, and nicer, guitars than I do. As Craig describes it, the site’s title comes from Martin Luther’s conversations around the eating (and drinking) table. Craig’s most recent entry, Making Room for Mystery, is about how our faith is a relationship, not a simple prepackaged plan. I’m finding I like these Presbyterian-pastor-Fuller-Seminary-graduate-interested-in-missional-and-postmodern-church sites. Maybe I’m finding out through them who I am.
Why we need church (small “c”): Alan Creech writes “[t]here has never really been a time in the history of The Church (as a whole) that being connected to Christ has been separated from being connected to a community of others who are connected to Christ. ” He makes some good observations about why individual Christians still need to remain connected to such a community.
Faded and Stressed Out Video: Aaron at The Voiz is feeling Faded, Spent, and Stressed Out, and he has the videoblog entry to prove it. Check it out.
Blogging Walls?: Dr. Michael Russell at Eternal Perspectives raises some important questions about the balkanization of the faith-based blogsphere.