Author Archives: Laura

About Laura

My name is Laura and I am on a journey, pondering the implications of God's glorious design of humanity and integrating sundry aspects of this design into a description of what it means to be the new humanity.

Giving up a Latte is not Suffering

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Laura

If suffering is the result of wholeheartedly setting aside our needs and desires for the good of the Kingdom and its King, then who we are as humanity and who we are becoming as the new humanity in Christ cannot … Continue reading →

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Learning Across the Random Bits of Life

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Laura

Apart from submission to the one true Lord, the freedom within a learning context and the freedom resulting from honed skills and knowledge are illusions. If this is all there is, if existence is merely the span from birth to … Continue reading →

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Following as Community in a Sea of Distraction

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Laura

Spiritual formation begins when we acknowledge Jesus as the one true sovereign among the many possible sovereigns. We are so easily distracted. Needs, real and imagined, external and internal, impose themselves upon our hearts and we are drawn away from … Continue reading →

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A Review of Christian Archy

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Laura

by David Allen Black Gonzalez, FL: Energion Publications (C) 2009, 43 pages, $9.99 (paper) Flow of Thought Chapter 1: The church was subverted by Christendom into a self-sufficient and self-important entity that has nothing to do with biblical Christianity; the … Continue reading →

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What has Kierkegaard to do with our common life?

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Laura

Our relational life is both subjective and objective.  Subjectively, our various perspectives interact in mutual influence, producing freshness and creativity that are otherwise unlikely.  Objectively, our trust connection to Christ produces essential communality spanning time and culture. Both are required … Continue reading →

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