Many of you have asked about the new network I will be part of with Dan Kimball. We are still forming the “creative” team so it isn’t even complete yet, but there is a website up that is our first announcement. We will be changing the name as we meet as a team but for now it is called “Origins.” You can find out a little more here — and see some of those who have agreed to be part... Read more
The apostle Paul had a major toe-to-toe with Peter in Antioch, a city north of the Land of Israel. Here is the passage and it reveals Paul’s gospel: (more…) Read more
I promised my Jesus of Nazareth class that I’d buy donuts for the class if the Bears beat the Tennessee Titans today. Go Bears! Read more
O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and... Read more
The good folks at YS invited me to their PIttsburgh NYWC and gave me two seminars to teach: one on how to shape the gospel and a second one about The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible . There’s something about gathering with youth pastors … there’s hope in the air, a future to dream about, and new ideas that get tested. But let’s face it: attendance or speaking at conferences like this is about meeting people and... Read more
The Obama Family … our prayers are with them: (more…) Read more
For some, the essence of the Christian life is the practice of spiritual disciplines. It’s a kind of machine-like approach to the Christian life: get your life enmeshed in the disciplines and spirituality will be the product. I exaggerate. But few will doubt that many focus spirituality on disciplines nor that the focus on spiritual disciplines — like solitude, fasting, etc — has arisen dramatically in the last twenty five years or so. If we address this topic from a... Read more
We had a post last week on [evo] coffee. It drew a very interesting letter that deserves public, civil conversation. The letter is below. What do you think? Should we buy fair trade coffee as a form of justice? (more…) Read more
To say that we Christians have the “gospel” is to say we have “good news that resolves the bad news.” So, we ask, What is the problem to which the gospel speaks this good news? What is it that Christianity “fixes”? The most significant problem many presentations of the gospel face is that the problem the gospel is trying to fix is not robust enough. In other words, the problem has become the problem. What is the need humans have... Read more
I don’t know why I like Donald Brake’s wondrous new book, Visual History of the English Bible, A: The Tumultuous Tale of the World’s Bestselling Book , the most: Is it because of the rich photography? the story the book tells? or is it the boy-ish delight Brake exudes when he tells another story of his finding some antique Bible? I’ll let you decide when you look through this book … but … (more…) Read more
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