We interrupt our series on how the private consensus is unraveling (#TPCIU) to make a few comments on the recent allegations of plagiarism on the part of Mars Hill Church’s Pastor Mark Driscoll. The story in toto can be found here on Christianity Today. Blow-by-blow chronicles can be found on Jonathan Merritt’s pieces on Religion News Service here, here, and here. Here’s the long and short of it. On November 21, radio-show host Janet Mefferd accused Mark Driscoll of plagiarizing... Read more
My apologies for the tardiness of this next post. When I started writing about this in late October, the open letter from Asian Americans to the evangelical church had just been published. Things have died down a bit now. In light of that, you’re probably expecting that I should ask you to forgive me for reviving the issue. I make no apologies. This is because the central issue, as far as I’m concerned, is far from dead. After all, my... Read more
There are moments in the career of a young academic when choices have to be made in terms of publication. Young scholars have to prioritize, keeping in mind the reality that the bulk of the work that we do is subject to peer review, after which what we write is disseminated through academic journals and books. However, as a journalist colleague of mine recently pointed out to me, this is not the only thing that we do. Aside from our... Read more
Last week, one of the big stories in evangelical news concerned a fairly heated conversation that Asian American and Hong Kong evangelicals have been having about Rick Warren’s Red Guard Facebook photo. Unintentionally, this blog participated in bringing this issue to a wider public. The story was also picked up by the news media, keeping the issue public even while Warren has deleted the photo, issued a response on one of the most visible bloggers’ blog, and apologized conditionally on... Read more
UPDATE: The contents of the following post concerned a post by Pastor Rick Warren that has been deleted on the afternoon of 24 September 2013. It also coincided with an apology on Sam Tsang’s blog, Engage the Pews, which Tsang has accepted and on which he has written further reflections. Following the examples of other bloggers such as Sam Tsang, Kathy Khang (More Than Serving Tea) and Wm. Darius Myers (Death Pastor), we will be leaving this post up in... Read more
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people, and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. O God, who taught the hearts of your people by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, send forth the same Spirit into our hearts, that we may be always truly wise, and ever rejoice in his consolation, through Christ our Lord. Amen. A prayer for Syria... Read more
When I was sixteen, I read a book titled The Fire Next Time. I figured that since it’s James Baldwin’s birthday today, I should put something up on the Thing in commemoration of this event. In fact, since I promised in a previous post on the George Zimmerman verdict that I would write about the immense impact that Baldwin’s work has had on my thinking, consider this a promise fulfilled. When I was in high school, I did not know... Read more
Some time ago, I raised the issue on this Thing that we need a feminist theologian. You could say that we now have one, although I’m sure that Not a Dinner Party’s views are not quite as radical as Mary Daly’s, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s, or Rita Nakashima Brock’s. (Or perhaps they are, which would be very interesting indeed). Instead, Not a Dinner Party’s rant ostensibly places her in the same camp as those who have been labeled... Read more
Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I... Read more
I will eventually write part 4 of the ‘What’s So Good About Being Anglican?’ series, but as Churl might need something more immediate, I wanted to say a few quick words about the Anglican charism before giving it a fuller treatment in Part 4. Consider this a trailer of sorts. Churl has been responding to questions about why he cannot stay Anglican with a characteristically robust account of why he needs the Roman Catholic Church as a body in order... Read more
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