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Receiving Holy Callings, And Being Wholly Responsive, Paul N. Anderson
Receiving Holy Callings, And Being Wholly Responsive, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
"What does it mean to receive a holy calling?" That's a good question! Whereas "holy" is an adjective, describing the just and loving character of God, a "calling" is the activity by which we are encountered by God in a way which transforms ourselves and our reasons for being. The image associated with a calling is an invitation to come and join another person in a task and into a personal relationship. Notice how a calling is the opposite of a command or an order. An order sends someone away with a task to be completed (Keleuo). A calling, however …
Confessions Within A Guilt-Denying Society, Paul Anderson
Confessions Within A Guilt-Denying Society, Paul Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
We live in a guilt-denying society. "No-fault" auto insurance limits the cost of an accident to the paying of bills rather than the assessing of blame. A disillusioned spouse bends the ear of a sympathetic listener as to the problems that the other partner causes within the marriage. The habitually late student explains to his teacher, "But it wasn't my fault!" We live in a society that seems to demand success over failure and rightness over wrongness. Therefore, the tendency is to deny anything that would make us look wrong or in any way inadequate.
Let Your Lives Speak: A Report Of The World Gathering Of Young Friends, 1985, Greensboro, North Carolina, Paul N. Anderson, Helen Carmichael, Eleanor Lloyd, Frances Hill
Let Your Lives Speak: A Report Of The World Gathering Of Young Friends, 1985, Greensboro, North Carolina, Paul N. Anderson, Helen Carmichael, Eleanor Lloyd, Frances Hill
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Over 300 Young Friends from 34 countries, 57 Yearly Meetings, and 8 Monthly Meetings under the care of Friends World Committee for Consultation, met at Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, 19-26 Seventh Month 1985, to envisage the future of the Religious Society of Friends and to see how our lives should speak within that vision.