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The Coming Evangelical Collapse
From a Usenet friend… interesting! ***** The blog “Dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness” by “Internet Monk” has an interesting series of three articles on the future of Christianity, focusing on the prediction of an Evangelical collapse. You may find the articles here: Part 1: The coming evangelical collapse. http://tinyurl.com/bzx9l9 Part 2: What will be left? […]
Sex and Seminaries
Sightings 1/12/09 — Martin E. Marty Did you know that there is a Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing? Last Thursday, January 8, the Institute, together with Union Theological Seminary in New York, issued a fifty-two page report, which is a call for North American Theological Seminaries to offer more courses and programs […]
Review: The Gospel of Grace: Tools for Building a Positive Understanding of the Bible (Mark Wickstrom, 2008)
How about this (a humorist writing to a Fundamentalist Christian): ‘I’ve heard you say you take the whole Bible at its word. Please help me understand the following: Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims this applies to […]
Kenosis and the Image of God
Three Presumptuous Sins of Teachers by Ronald T. Habermas In Christology today, two prominent doctrines stand out in need of particular attention: Image of God and Kenosis. All humankind was made in God’s Image and we still retain that reflection, albeit with serious distortions. It is easy to forget that Jesus, as both 100% God […]
Why We De-versified the Bible
Bible literacy is lower than ever. Who’s to blame? Try Bible publishers. BY: Glenn Paauw Why is the Bible so hard to read? For all the energies Bible publishers spend on manipulating the look and feel so that the Bible will go down easy, part of the problem is, well, the look and feel. Over […]
Mystery (Richard Rohr)
Utterly Humbled by Mystery I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don’t think so. My very belief and experience of a loving and endlessly creative God has led me to trust in both. I’ve had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the […]
N T Wright: What Is This Word?
NT Wright: What Is This Word? Sunday, December 28, 2008 An essay from Christianity Today, from which the below is excerpted: When Pilate hears the word, says John, he is afraid, since the word in question is Jesus’ reported claim to be the Son of God (John 19:8). Unless we recognize this strange, dark strand […]
Re-Judaizing Jesus
Recently a popular blogger — let’s call him Rabbi Ben — zinged the scholarship of a man we shall call Rabbi Rob. R. Ben claimed R. Rob did not “understand the difference between Judaism prior to the two Jewish wars in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. and later Mishnaic and Talmudic Judaism.” He helpfully […]
Spiritual/unspiritual
It is not about becoming spiritual beings nearly as much as about becoming human beings. The biblical revelation is saying that we are already spiritual beings; we just don’t know it yet. The Bible tries to let you in on the secret, by revealing God in the ordinary. That’s why so much of the text […]
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