Tag: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• TOP THREE BOOKS: BIOGRAPHIES

  Who doesn’t like a great story about a great life?  Well, almost no one.  That is why biographies and autobiographies have always been and continue to be big sellers.  I have read many bios over the years, but my first one was The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.  I read it for a book report…

  Jamie Greening

  May 20, 2014

  All, Books, Church, Culture

  Biography, Bob Newhart, Books, Crazy Horse, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, Larry McMurtry, Miss Jane Pittman

• BRAIN DRAIN IN CHURCH: PART TWO

  This is Part Two of a two-part blog from a guest blogger, Dr. David Caddell.  Click here to begin with Part One. Evangelical Culture and the Rise of Anti-Intellectualism The willingness to allow novices in vital positions such as teaching has largely been the result of the anti-intellectual bias which set up household in the…

  Jamie Greening

  January 22, 2014

  All, Bible, Books, Church, Culture

  anti-intellectualism, brain drain, C. S. Lewis, church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, elitist, Mark Noll, Origen, worship

• ALL HEROES DAY AKA ALL SAINTS DAY

  This is the last re-posting I’ll make during the week of “Hallows Eve.”  Next week I will return with original content; assuming I can come up with something.  A bit of sadness marks this particular re-posting as the only living member of the “heroes on the wall club” died a couple of months ago.  I’ve…

  Jamie Greening

  November 1, 2012

  Church, Preaching, Writing

  All Saints Day, Book of Common Prayer, C. S. Lewis, Calvin Miller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ernest Hemingway, Spurgeon

• LETTERS AND PAPERS

  Yesterday I finished reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison.  I had read selections in the past, but never had I read the whole book.  My methodology was steady.  I began reading it back in February and I read small snippets every day as a part of my regular devotion plan.  That is why…

  Jamie Greening

  May 23, 2012

  All, Books, Church, Culture

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge, Eric Metaxas, Finkenwalde, Letters and Papers from Prison, Nazi’s