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Indeed, on the Wrigley Field ticker today you could see a welcoming of our new grandson, Aksel Donovan Nelson McKnight… Kris thinks his name is very kingly! 5 minutes or so old… Congratulations to Annika and Lukas and Aksel. More to come … more to come … more to come. Read more
In 1620 John Winthrop, leader of Massachusetts Bay, transported the covenant God made with Israel to the covenant God was making with the New World. En route to Massachusetts, Winthrop preached a now-famous sermon: “A Model of Christian Charity.” He is our first illustration of how Americans have prophesied godlessness and the judgment of God or apocalyptic doom if they do not repent. |inline Read more
One final text for this week on gospel, and it is potent one: |inline Read more
As I announced recently, we will be doing a series on the brilliant, provocative, and challenging new book by J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account. The book is about racism — in particular, it is about how racialized theology and the church have become. Carter examines how theology itself — the so-called sacred discipline — has implicated itself in racism. |inline Read more
Every Sunday morning I post a prayer drawn (almost always) from The Book of Common Prayer and we use the weekly collect (set prayer). Many of you have written me to say how much you appreciate the wording or the ideas — and sometimes someone wants to take issue with the prayer. But, in my estimation, The Book of Common Prayer is the best prayer book available and I have used it for a number of years, along with the... Read more
The gospel of the kingdom can take on “happy” tones if we are not careful. Notice this “gospel” text: |inline Read more
One of the more interesting books that have come my way of late is Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America’s Imminent Secularization, a book edited by C. Mathewes and C. McKnight Nichols (no relation). If the title doesn’t interest you, perhaps this line will: “In American history, prophesies of godlessness are as American as American godliness itself” (6). Paradoxically, alongside this worrisome fear that the country was about to fall into apocalyptic doom is the liberal vision that America was... Read more
I’ve been looking for this book: Gordon Isaac, Left Behind or Left Befuddled. I will recommend this book to every Bible student who gets into prophecy and who along the way wants to figure out what in the world is so attractive about the Left Behind books. The author, Gordon Isaac, is professor of advent studies at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Here’s why I like this book: |inline Read more
In Luke 7 the following events are reported: Jesus heals the centurion’s son, he raises the widow’s son, he has words for John the Baptist about who he is and who John is, and Jesus is anointed by a sinful woman — and it set off a firestorm by a Pharisee and Jesus explained what forgiveness and love were all about. Then Luke says this: |inline Read more
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