Weekly Meanderings

Last updated on: July 19, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

City lights of Chicago: |inline Read more

Mamma Mia! The Movie

Last updated on: July 19, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

We saw it last night. Monday I’ll post a brief review of Mamma Mia! The Movie, but Saturday is for music. And I dare you to listen to the clips below … and not have the song on your mind for the rest of the day. |inline Read more

Friday is for (Original Sin) Friends

Last updated on: July 18, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

We have turned to Alan Jacobs, Original Sin, and his essay-like approach to original sin. I want to begin today with a question: |inline Read more

Way to go Jonathan!

Last updated on: July 18, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

I swiped this newspaper article about Jonathan Williams, whose camp we endorsed some time back. The camp was a success and kudos to Jonathan and Kari from Scot and Kris. |inline Read more

On Writing for a Blog

Last updated on: July 18, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

If you’re interested in my take, this is an example of how not to write for a blog. I don’t know Chad Hall, and I’m sure if I met him in a different setting it would be different, but this post is like entering into a room and asking for a fight just for the sake of a fight. I see no attempt to understand, to sympathize, to empathize — and out of understanding, sympathy and empathy, to engage in... Read more

Help Question

Last updated on: July 17, 2008 at 8:43 am By Scot McKnight

Does anyone know of a good video on how we got our Bible? Read more

Lost in Transmission

Last updated on: July 17, 2008 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

There are two things I really like about Nick Perrin’s new book, Lost in Transmission. The first is that Nick gets it when it comes to the level of books the church needs more of. Evangelicals, in the 70s and 80s, decided to be more scholarly; that’s a good thing. In the process most of these scholars decided they would write only for scholars. That’s not a good thing. Nick Perrin can write those kinds of books as well as... Read more

Chrysalis: A Reminder

Last updated on: July 17, 2008 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

I want to remind the Jesus Creed blog community of an offer I made to read a book and engage in a conversation here about it. We will begin on August 11th. The offer is for these kinds of people: people who have struggled with their faith, people who are spiritual directors who know the struggles of others, people who are pastors who attend to the struggles, and emerging Christians who are struggling. |inline Read more

Heaven 12

Last updated on: July 17, 2008 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

One special text in John about heaven: |inline Read more

Compline

Last updated on: July 16, 2008 at 8:50 pm By Scot McKnight

I will lie down this night with God, and God will lie down with me; I will lie down this night with Christ, and Christ will lie down with me; I will lie down this night with the Spirit, and the Spirit will lie down with me; God and Christ and the Spirit, be lying down with me. Read more