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Summer sports … |inline Read more
In the 2d chp of Alan Jacobs, Original Sin, we learn about the contribution of Augustine to the idea of original sin. Here’s what we learn: |inline Read more
I wasn’t able to find it online (oops), but Christianity Today‘s most recent print edition has a piece that I’d like to talk about. Daniel Harrell, a pastor at Park Street Church in Boston (say, “bah-ston”), got 21 folks to experiment with living the Book of Leviticus for a month. Inspired by the funny and at times insightful book by A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically, Harrell and his cadre of kosher Christians gave it a try. |inline Read more
A church in Texas is shaped for “guys.” I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but the colors and appearance and events, guy things like hunting and fishing and golf, are emphasized. The church is called 121 Community Church, and it’s Grapevine Texas. “No pastels. No flowers. No sweet music. No sit-with-your-hands-folded mood. Women are welcome, but the tone is intentionally “guy church” for a reason, says Ross Sawyers, founder and pastor of 121.” |inline Read more
Andrew Cameron’s essay on obsession, our heart’s disordered desires, is worth the price of the book called The Consolations of Theology. I don’t know what comes to mind when you hear the word “obsession,” perhaps Howard Hughes, but here’s how Cameron gets at what obsession is: |inline Read more
This is cool. Codex Sinaiticus, one of the most storied manuscripts of the entire New Testament and one of the earliest and best manuscripts as well, is now online at this site. When I was doing my PhD and our family was down in London, we got to the British Museum and the first thing I did was bee-line it to the manuscript room to see Sinaiticus. Now we can all see it. Read more
Acts 2 has a number of interesting references and I will quote each one with a little context: |inline Read more
How does the theme of judgment … or, how does knowledge of God as judge open up the missional theme in the Bible? This is the question of the second half of chp 3 in Chris Wright’s The Mission of God and I thought this section was both intelligent and insightful. |inline Read more
OK Jesus Creeders, I’m countin’ on ya. Last Saturday, on our way to a student’s wedding, we got rear-ended and our RAV4 got smashed up pretty good. (We didn’t make it to the wedding.) No one was hurt, though we were sitting around a bit Saturday and Sunday waiting for some unwanted stiffness. It never came so we’re fine. Basically, our car has been totaled or very close. Anyway, here’s what we need from our blog friends: |inline Read more
My little computer program boots up about 19 separable instances of “heaven” in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. And we begin with a text that is at the center of a few debates today, in particular the nature of the ascension and the Second Coming. |inline Read more
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