A few weeks ago, I jumped on the “Pummel Brett McCracken for a crappy article in the WSJ” bandwagon (Part 1, Part 2). I’ve now had an opportunity to read his longer, and somewhat more responsible, article from this month’s Christianity Today. Both of these articles are summaries of his book, Hipster Christianity (full disclosure: [...]
A few folks have drawn attention to Sage Journals’ offer of free online access to their collection for about the next six weeks. You can register here. But why o why would you want to do such a thing? For the best reasons of all, of course… After registering, you can then have what you’ve [...]
Has anyone else had a problem such as the following in Jesus and the Victory of God? Today I was reading along and told that I could find more of what I was interested in should I be so kind to turn to ch. 13. Chapter 13 was not so helpful, and I began to [...]
The other day I was reading Evolving in Monkey Town. My 5 year old daughter initiated the following conversation: “Are you reading the Bible?” “No, sweetie.” “Is it a book about God?” “Yes.” “Is it about ‘God created’?” “It is! How did you know?” “There’s a monkey on the front.” Brilliant.
It has come to my attention that Michael Pahl has started blogging through his excellent book, From Resurrection to New Creation. The book is an excellent entry point into not only the significance of the resurrection per se but also the importance of narrative theology and knowing how the end of the story transforms the [...]
I’d like to be a universalist. Or, at least, something more like a universalist than I am now. The more I ponder the ramifications of the traditional idea that anyone who doesn’t put faith in Jesus going to Hell, the more I hope that there’s more than one loophole. My thoughts have been pushed on [...]
On Jesus clearing the temple and cursing the fig tree, William Telford says this: The Lord whom they sought had suddenly come to his Temple (cf. Mal. 3.1 and Mk. 1.2) but had condemned rather than restored it! Elijah the prophet had been sent before the great and terrible day of the Lord (Mal. 4.5; [...]
The following gem is from Gary A. Anderson, The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination: Everything needs a purpose or a goal, even a good story. And somewhat paradoxically to understand how a good story begins we need to have some knowledge of how the whole comes to closure. Because [...]
Yesterday I came home to an unexpected package from Amazon. Inside was a book that will no doubt be the book everyone’s talking about over the next few months. The next Blue Like Jazz is Rachel Held Evans‘, Evolving in Monkey Town. This is the story of someone too young to write her own story. [...]
At long last, Unlocking Romans is available on Kindle. You may go download it now. I should point out to all my friends with iPads, Macs, iPhones, Blackberries,and Androids, that one can get a free Kindle reader and use said devices to read this wonderful treasure and myriad other books.
