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Thank-you to Arlene for passing along N.T. Wright's sermon Wisdom in a Troubled Time.  Join us in prayerfully considering and taking action on the closing paragraph, which Lord willing describes not only the warp and woof of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Graduate & Faculty Ministry, but also the Grosh household.

We need, once again, to relearn, and to teach the young, how to think. I often say in my diocese that I am passionate about the authority of scripture but equally passionate about the vital and necessary place of reason. We live in a world of unreason, where right and wrong have been reduced to personal preferences and ‘attitudes’, which can then be manipulated by smooth talk – like the verbal shift which says ‘credit’ when it means ‘debt’, and the equivalents of that in every sphere – and where people don’t need to think because they can drift along with the current mood. And you and I know that the next generation will need – boy, will they need! – to be able to think: to think hard, to think through where the world is going and what they need to do in it, to think not about how they can feather their own nests but how they can wisely serve their fellow human beings in God’s world. You, my friends, are among the few people who can make a real difference at a time like this; because you can model and teach, for those who will lead us in the days to come, the wisdom, the God-fearing wisdom, the Jesus-shaped wisdom, which alone will enable us to get our bearings and redesign a world in which all can live with new humility and new hope. You are in our prayers. God bless you in your calling.

PS.  I'm looking forward to the material which N.T. Wright shares on Human Flourishing at Following Christ 08 becoming a widely read and applied IVP book.