Some people seems to be so reductionistic that can't be woken up by pointing out to them that they have committed a fallacy of reductionism.  Instead, they keep coming back with more reductionistic notions.  Is reductionism a mental disease?

Bill W. passed away on January 24, 1971

THE WASHINGTON POST©
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1971

Known to Thousands as Bill W. Alcoholics Anonymous Founder Dies

By Donald E. Graham, Washington Post Staff Writer

Scores of thousands of people learned for the first time the name of the man who helped them recover from alcoholism when William Griffith Wilson died of pneumonia in a Miami Hospital Sunday night.

He who denies the Trinity will lose his soul;
He who tries to understand the Trinity will lose his mind. (Dr. Wilbur Smith)

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1. Personal power and charisma are not mysterious. Some believe that one cannot earn it or learn it. This is not true. The effectiveness of your communications determines the effectiveness of your life.
2. Leaders whom people respect and follow are those who are able to communicate effectively. They have a dynamic presence.
3. If you desire to make a difference, you will have to learn to communicate with a powerful presence. You must be able to communicate what you want to get done in the church, in the ministry, and in life.
4. The pulpit is no greater than the evangelist or pastor who fills it on a weekly basis.
5. If the preacher is boring to the congregation, the people will think God is boring.
6. Some ministers have style without substance, while others have substance without style.
7. Many souls are not saved because the sermon was never delivered to the lost.
8. It is possible for the preacher to speak the message, use up a portion of time, give an altar call, and still not accomplish the intended purpose of the sermon.

A Walk in the Cloud It was an honor for me to be part of the leadership team of the 30th Annual Racial Ethnic Seminarians Conference at the Zephyr Point, Lake Tahoe, one of those places that resemble heaven on earth.  31 seminarians attended the conference and we had a wonderful time.  It is one of the best conferences that I have ever attended.  It was full of epiphany and ended with our reluctance to leave, wishing that we could build tents up there!

I am greatly encouraged by the quality of these seminarians and feel very hopeful for the fruitful future of PCUSA.  We will never be frozen chosen anymore! 

Theology is human articulation about who God is, what God has done, how God functions, when God take actions, and where is God now, based on God’s revealed living Word, Jesus Christ, written word, the Bible, and breathed word, the Holy Spirit.  Professor Leanne Van Dyke puts it simply, “Theology is human speech about God.”

While God’s Word never changed, human speech does because we are influenced by our culture and context.  Our speech about God is always limited by our environment.  Years ago, when I was about to leave Burma for America, I called my aunt in San Jose and asked her what to bring and what to expect.  She told me not to bring anything and not to expect anything, but just come.  I had a lot of imagination about America, based on the revelation from the relatives and friends who had been there, and based on the America I had seen in the movies and TV programs.  To my total surprise, only when I actually landed on this land, I discovered that America was totally different from what I have imagined.  Then I realized that my imagination of USAmerica was limited by my third world context.