Today the fully revised second edition of Blue Parakeet is available. I’ve been asked a dozen times or more, What’s new in the Blue Parakeet? This is a book about reading the Bible, about bad reading habits — like making the Bible into a Rorschach inkblot where we see what we are looking for — and good reading habits — like knowing the story of the Bible so we can see how God spoke in Moses’ day in Moses’ way... Read more
How to talk about science and faith … or perhaps, and more important, how not to talk about science and faith. Here are some thoughts from 50+ years as a Christian involved in a range of churches, and from 30+ years as an active scientist, 26 years as a professor. 1. Make Sure Your Facts are Straight. There is no scientific controversy about the age of the earth. It is old, far older than 10,000 years. The few scientists who... Read more
Where is the Spirit in faith? We are looking at Philip Ziegler, Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology. Ziegler observes where the Spirit fits in Reformed thinking generally, and then asks if that is enough: Within the main lines of the Reformed tradition, the work of the Spirit is typically schematized as bringing to subjective efficacy the objective reality of the word: to the external call of the gospel there corresponds, in the elect, the internal... Read more
Derek Webster is lead pastor at Grace Pointe, a multicampus church in Illinois. Derek is a global teacher, speaker and consultant on leadership, culture, and mission. He is the author of Unlocking the Soul of a City, holds two master’s degrees, and is currently obtaining his Ph.D. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity. He has planted and pastored churches throughout Europe and the U.S. Are churches losing the generational war of faith? Statistics seem to indicate a rise in agnosticism and a movement away... Read more
From CBE’s Arise By Gricel Medina. The Reverend Gricel Medina is ordained to Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Covenant Church. She holds degrees from Oswego State University, Oral Roberts University and the Centro Hispano Estudios Teologicos where she majored in Hispanic theological studies and minored in marriage and family counseling. She has served as a bilingual church planter for the Evangelical Covenant Church as well as superintendent, giving leadership to Hispanic, Asian, and African-American pastors. She developed prayer summits... Read more
O God, your never-failing providence sets in order all things both in heaven and earth: Put away from us, we entreat you, all hurtful things, and give us those things which are profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. BCP Read more
Pooping Elephants, Mowing Weeds: What Business Gurus Failed to Tell You By David George Moore I am grateful to Scot McKnight for giving me the opportunity to offer a heads up on my new ebook, Pooping Elephants, Mowing Weeds: What Business Gurus Failed to Tell You. My short (7500 words) ebook seeks to address issues that don’t typically get addressed by popular business books. Among other things, the following are included: The need to deal with the roots of an... Read more
Welp, not many links this week but they are worthy of serious reading and discussion. Beth Allison Barr’s confession: I realize that I bear even greater responsibility because I knew complementarian theology was wrong. As I have been writing for several weeks now, complementarian theology is based on a handful of verses which have become a lens for understanding all of the Bible. There is so much textual and historical evidence that counterscomplementarian theology. Sometimes I am dumbfounded that this is a battle women are still fighting.... Read more
From Minda Zetlin: It’s officially summer and you know what that means: Hiking, swimming, backyard barbecues…and mosquitoes. Everyone is bothered by them, but some people think they’ve found the perfect antidote to unpleasant, and potentially disease-laden mosquito bites. Do these magic cures hold up under scientific testing? In many cases the answer is: Absolutely not. Believe it or not, mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures to humans on our planet, with more than 1 million deaths a year attributed to the diseases they carry, which include... Read more
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