What we think they know and what is true are often at odd, sometimes in ignorant bliss though. This observation alone encourages us to get it right by finding evidence for what we know, or conforming what we know to what we can know on the basis of evidence. Hence, I’m blogging through Brad Wright’s new book: Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites…and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media . There are some... Read more
James Emery White’s , in his new book ( Christ Among the Dragons: Finding Our Way Through Cultural Challenges), offers nothing less than a stunning chp on the importance of the church, and we will close this series with this post. And he doesn’t hold back on the superficiality of the “church” in low church evangelicalism, and much of evangelicalism at large. Can you say “I believe in the Church”? Do you think low church evangelicals really believe in the church? Do... Read more
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes... Read more
There is no book like this and there is no book because there is no one today who lived Ernst Käsemann’s life. He is known today, though not as well as he ought to be by the younger generation of NT scholars, mostly as a Pauline scholar. Those who are into the historical Jesus may know of his seminal essay that fractured the Bultmann community as he cut a unique path in thinking we could actually know things about Jesus... Read more
John Mark Hicks, Come to the Table: Revisioning the Lord’s Supper , explores themes of the Eucharist in such a fresh manner. The Table of the Lord visibly — visibly, concretely, physically, really — expresses the unity of the Body of Christ. Union with Christ is the sole factor that invites a person and that qualifies a person. Union with Christ also is the sole qualification for you or for me to accept another at the Table. Union with Christ leads to... Read more
O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion Edited by Ronald L. Numbers Harvard University Press ISBN 978-0674033276 Reviewed by Justin Topp, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology North Park University Blog:http://scienceandtheology.wordpress.com/ Twitter: JustinTopp Science and religion are incompatible. It’s either one or the other. Everyone knows this. Which one do you choose? If you’re educated, it is clear that science has enabled us to do away with the cancer that is religion, which only arose because of the primitive understanding of the... Read more
Tomorrow is a day of worship, so I’m posting this today… I’m scanning the blogs that are interlinked about the incongruity of followers of Jesus celebrating July 4th, and especially doing so in a church, on a Sunday. I’m seeing a clear trend: it’s wrong, they say, to celebrate America’s independence in a church context. But there’s so little reflection on the dirty reality of what it means to fight for justice in this world. There’s such a distancing of... Read more
The lightning at the Acropolis will wake up some dead philosopher-kings. A big heart-felt thanks to Cathleen Falsani for this wondrous story. An important new blog, Transpositions, on theology and art — give it some reads. Don Johnson’s proposed list of new seminary courses. Karen’s new idea … running for governor. David Fitch posts a good one on the de-eschatologizing trend in kingdom theology. John Ortberg on envy. Good analogy from Bill Donahue. Ted’s nice review of Rachel Held ... Read more
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