Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
If I were in Nashville on Nov 21, or remotely close, Tokens would be Top Item to Attend. High-fiber entertainment -Rob Woodfin Years ago Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland made a series of movies about a couple of schmaltzy kids who were always able to solve whatever problem they found themselves in by putting on a show. However bleak things seemed, the dark clouds were always chased away when the music started. There are problems aplenty today, as well, and... Read more
From WaPo: By Ted Koppel Sunday, November 14, 2010; To witness Keith Olbermann – the most opinionated among MSNBC’s left-leaning, Fox-baiting, money-generating hosts – suspended even briefly last week for making financial contributions to Democratic political candidates seemed like a whimsical, arcane holdover from a long-gone era of television journalism, when the networks considered the collection and dissemination of substantive and unbiased news to be a public trust. Back then, a policy against political contributions would have aimed to avoid even... Read more
I like all parts of the USA — well not all — but nothing, and I mean nothing, beats good old Fall colors! Is this about to be your first winter in winterlands like Chicago? Read this. And if you are Swedish, or Covenant, you might want to read Abby’s post and browse her pictures of Sweden. J. Kameron Carter: “Or put differently one more time and much more succinctly: “post-racial” racism is now working in the register of religion.”... Read more
From Lifehacker, a summary of Kurt Vonnegut’s advice for those who want to write short stories: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. Start as... Read more
From my favorite writer on all things Amish, Donald Kraybill, and this article of his is about the development of obedience in Amish culture. These links — between spanking, happiness and heaven — provide the framework for Amish child discipline, an approach that nurtures obedience instead of individuality. It’s a framework that disturbs modern sensitivities. Naomi disagrees. In fact, she believes that letting children go without discipline is “the cruelest kind of child abuse.” She poses the question rhetorically: “Now... Read more
Sheldon Good, writing at HuffPo, responds to Mark Tooley, who think Anabaptists and Neo-Anabaptists are taking over, to say, well, here’s his opening: Are Mennonites taking over the world? Not likely. But Mark Tooley wonders in The American Spectatormagazine whether Mennonites are taking over a big enough part of Christianity to be dangerous. Tooley used a recent apology from Lutherans — for violent persecution of 16th-century Anabaptists — to emphasize a “neo-Anabaptist movement” that demands all Christians and society “bend to pacifism.”... Read more
This post is part 7 of a series The Fall and Sin After Darwin. We’ve been looking at the essays in a book Theology After Darwin centered around a simple question: What are the implications for Christian theology if Darwin was right? In conjunction with this we are also looking at three articles in the recent theme issue of the ASA Journal Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (v. 62 no. 3 2010) Reading Genesis: The Historicity of Adam and... Read more
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Gordon Fee on Revelation
Gordon Fee’s newest commentary, and the newest one in the New Covenant Commentary Series, is on the Book of Revelation: Revelation (New Covenant Commentary). Anyone who opens with the following statement has my attention: The unfortunate reality is that almost all of the popular stuff on the Revelation, which tends to be well known by many of these [his] students, has scarcely a shred of exegetical basis to it. And Fee knows Revelation uses prophetic images in the Bible and... Read more