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Revolution or Recession? Sex in Pre- and Post-Christian Cultures - Joshua Chestnut

Feb 1- Revolution or Recession?  Sex in Pre- and Post-Christian Cultures -
Joshua Chestnut
One might assume that in a culture as tolerant and progressive as our own that these would be booming times for sex, yet a growing body of research seems to point in the opposite direction that more and more people are in fact retreating from physical intimacy.  In this lecture will not only consider the sexual landscape of our current post-Christian culture, but reconsider the surprising distinctives of Christian sexual ethics as they emerged in the Pre-Christian world and how it revolutionized human sexuality.  

 

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The Gift of Grace: No Strings Attached or Call and Response? - Dave Friedrich

Jan 25, 2019

- The Gift of Grace:  No Strings Attached or Call and Response?
Dave Friedrich
This lecture considers the research of New Testament scholar John Barclay in his book, Paul and the Gift (2015), that challenges the definition of Divine grace as a gift with no strings attached and helps us see the gift of grace in Galatians and Romans as both divine call and human response.  (This is the second lecture in a two part series, but also stands alone.  Part one is, The Last Laugh)  

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The Last Laugh: Perceiving and Receiving the Incongruity of Grace Dave Friedrich

A lecture given by Dave Friedrich at Southborough L'Abri on January 18th, 2019. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

 

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The Changing Relationship of Young People to Work - Mardi Keyes

A lecture given by Mardi Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on November 2nd, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

 The Changing Relationship of Young People to Work

From the birth of our nation, the relationship of young people to work has varied according to geography, gender, ethnicity, class, race and religion. But it is a fair to say that in general, young people (children and teenagers) used to be economic assets to their families. For many, young peoples’ work was (and in some cases still is) necessary for family survival. Today, many couples consider children a “luxury” they cannot afford. We will consider some of the consequences of “modern childhood” that emerged with the middle class in the 19th century – a childhood free from labor, dedicated to age-graded schooling and separated from casual (non-professional) relationships with adults.

~Mardi Keyes

 

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Caring for Creation Part II. The Glory of the Small: What do butterflies have to do with following Jesus? - Anna Friedrich

A lecture given by Anna Friedrich at Southborough L'Abri on October 26th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

Butterflies and moths are among the most intriguing insects of our ecosystems. From their physical transformations to their epic migrations, these fragile little things continue to surprise and challenge us. In this lecture, we will dip our toes into the deep waters of Lepidoptera, and wonder together about how these small creatures play a part in God’s big story.

~Anna Friedrich

 

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Created to Make a Difference: Redeeming Human Agency in God’s World - DISCUSSION

This is only the discussion time to the theme weekend:
Created to Make a Difference: Redeeming Human Agency in God’s World

"Self- Love, Self-Help, Self-Control?: Thinking About Dominion from the Inside-Out"

A lecture given by Sarah Chestnut at Southborough L'Abri on October 20th, 2018.

Part 3 of the theme weekend: Created to Make a Difference: Redeeming Human Agency in God’s World.

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If a biblical understanding of human dominion involves exercising care and responsibility for God's creation, how might we exercise dominion over our inner worlds--our thoughts and feelings?  What might self-control have to do with this endeavor?  We will consider how the Holy Spirit's work of  're-humanizing' us empowers us to do the work of dominion from the inside-out.

 

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The Vanishing American Adult: A Field Report on the Crisis of Agency Today ~Joshua Chestnut

A lecture given by Joshua Chestnut at Southborough L'Abri on October 20th, 2018.

Part 2 of the theme weekend: Created to Make a Difference: Redeeming Human Agency in God’s World.

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Creational Dominion and its Fallen Distortions - Ben Keyes

A lecture given by Ben Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on October 19th, 2018.

Part 1 of the theme weekend: Created to Make a Difference: Redeeming Human Agency in God’s World.

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Humans were created by God to have agency in the world. To live with true dominion, as God designed it, is still an essential part of human thriving and yet with the Fall this dominion has become corrupted in a myriad of ways. What is true dominion? What are some of the universal ways in which it has been distorted?

 

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Can Irony and Humor be Persuasive for Christian Belief? - Dick Keyes

A lecture given by Dick Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on October 12th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

Can Irony and Humor be Persuasive for Christian Belief?

The Christian diagnosis for our situation is that we are each a “glorious ruin”. That human condition is itself bound up in profound ironies. As we look at the efforts of Biblical figures to persuade people to believe the Gospel, we can learn from their use of irony as they did it.

 

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