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I was asked to write a review of The Nativity Story for Relevant Magazine. Read more
I was asked to write a review of The Nativity Story for Relevant Magazine. Read more
1st Sunday of Advent: Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth... Read more
The first Christmas was a Magnificat kind of Christmas. It wasn’t a Dickens kind of Christmas, and it wasn’t a Midwestern kind of Christmas, and it wasn’t a Tennessee kind of Christmas. It was a Mary kind of Magnificat kind of Christmas that turns our kinds of Christmases on their head. This is our first in four Advent reflections about a Magnificat kind of Christmas. |inline Read more
When I spoke at John Brown University, I had dinner with a student whose father was seriously injured in a car accident the next day. Here’s a link. Lord, hear our prayers. Read more
John Kasich of “The Heartland” for national FoxNews has contacted our people to invite us to the Chicago studio tonight for an interview about The Real Mary and The Nativity Story. So, if you have time tonight between 8-9pm Central (they thought this segment would run from 8:30 or so on), give it a look. Knowing how news is, though, nothing is certain until it happens. It gives Kris and me a great opportunity to have a dinner down in... Read more
Next Sunday we’ll be at Emmaus Community and then on Monday at the emerging group Up/rooted. For details, see here. |inline Read more
There are four theologians, who happen to be my age (or close), whom I have decided to read whatever they write — if I can find time. LeRon Shults, Kevin Vanhoozer, John Franke, and Miroslav Volf. Volf’s newest book, which I want to examine over the next couple of months, is The End of Memory. Beginning this week with this book is especially appropriate because Volf deals with memory and being abused. |inline Read more
The Church has developed its own mechanisms of calling people “names,” of “labelling” others. The most powerful “labels” in the Church are “fundamentalist” and “liberal.” Calling someone one of those labels is rarely a simple description — it is an act of repudiation and denunciation. Here are ten observations about labelling. But, first … |inline Read more
“How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life” (Ps 119:40). To long for (taev) is how the psalmist caps this section of the psalm. He yearns for God’s precepts. |inline Read more
From the AP wires, and posted at AOL.com, there is clear evidence of purple politics. And blurring lines often creates tension. Rick Warren has a summit on AIDS and has invited both Barack Obama (Democrat) and Sam Brownback (Republican), but Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, asks his folks to protest the event because Obama supports abortion. |inline Read more
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