Eugene Peterson’s Newest

Last updated on: October 14, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

No one writes like Eugene Peterson and, because he has translated the Bible (The Message) in its entirety, there is probably no one who can plumb the depths of the spirituality of biblical language like Peterson. That he has chosen the parables and prayers of Jesus as the space for this topic in Tell it Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in his Stories and Prayers thrills me. |inline Read more

Gospel 14

Last updated on: October 14, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

From the Gospels we move today to the Acts of the Apostles on the meaning of the word “gospel” or “preach the gospel.” The first text is Acts says it all: |inline Read more

Good Intentions: Bob Smietana

Last updated on: October 13, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Bob Smietana and Charles North have written a book I need and perhaps you do to: some good old fashioned common sense about economics. Some people have Good Intentions but not enough economic sense. I’ve asked Bob to converse with us about this issue today. The issue these writers are asking is not “if” we should help the poor; helping is a given. The question is “how best” to help the poor. |inline Read more

Missional at Biblical

Last updated on: October 13, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Last Friday morning I flew out to Philadelphia to speak at Biblical Seminary. John Franke was installed as the Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology. It may have been the most satisfying and stimulating theological conference I’ve ever attended. |inline Read more

Gospel 13

Last updated on: October 13, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Some of the texts in the Gospels about the “gospel” don’t tell us enough to help us define what how the NT authors understand the “gospel.” So, I’ll gather together three texts (and their parallels) because each assumes we know what it means. |inline Read more

Aksel-ography

Last updated on: October 12, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Here’s grandma Kris with Aksel. (She’s no doubt teaching him the Jesus Creed.) Read more

Prayer for the Week

Last updated on: October 12, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more

Weekly Meanderings

Last updated on: October 11, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

“What happened to the Cubs?,” I ask Lou Piniella. His answer? |inline Read more

Blue Parakeet has landed

Last updated on: October 10, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

I’m happy to announce that that our new book, Blue Parakeet, has “landed” at Amazon and local bookstores. |inline Read more

Loosening the Grip 2

Last updated on: October 10, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Ideas don’t always transform behavior. Another way of saying this is that orthodoxy doesn’t necessarily lead to orthopraxy. Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of the disconnect emerges with racism for it is a sad, sad fact that some profound thinkers have been thoroughly orthodox and incredibly “hetero-praxis” when it comes to racism. But the tools to undo racism can be found in orthodox thinking. In particular, in christology. Orthodox christology obliterates racism. This is how I read the... Read more