Jesus Creed
Chicago Spring means spotting Baltimore Orioles and the morning dance of birds:
Imagine a big holiday meal with all the trimmings where only one person is responsible for cooking, serving, and cleaning it up. At the end of the day, that person would be pretty tired, wouldn’t they?!
Now imagine a big holiday meal with all the trimmings that was prepared, served, and cleaned up by several people working together and enjoying each other’s company. That’s a very different scenario, isn’t it? |inline
This post is from Peggy Brown. She gets to the very heart of what this blog is all about and we are grateful to her for this.
The Parable of The Jesus Creeders
By Peggy Brown (4/25/08) |inline
Dan de Roulet now finishes up with an insightful interpretation of this story, and I have to say … wow, I didn’t see most of this at work; if I did, it was so inchoate I needed to see it like this to notice it. So, thanks Dan. Here’s Dan’s post:
Last time I asked about how readers are seeing the end of the story. |inline
This post came as a comment last week on the parable of the prodigal son … and I know many of you would like to see it if you haven’t already. This came from Attie over in South Africa and we look forward to meeting him personally in a month. |inline
A letter which the young candidate would like discussed:
Dear Scot,
I am 34 (10 years part time youth ministry experience) and currently in discussion with a local congregation about joining their staff as FT Youth Pastor.
During my first meeting with the Elders I was asked, “What would you say to a 15 year old boy that asks, ‘How do I get to Heaven?’” |inline
John Goldingay ends the preface to volume 2 of his OT Theology (OT Theology: Israel’s Faith
Just in case you didn’t see this back on the posts on Tom Wright’s book: here is Tom Wright’s letter to us. |inline
(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.)
As some of you may know, Shane Claiborne was invited and then uninvited to speak at Cedarville University, a Christian college in Cedarville OH. Here is Shane’s comment at God’s Politics. Tomorrow I will post my thoughts on this event. What have you been thinking? Again, the following post is from God’s Politics; it was written by Shane himself. Here is a CT article on the same issue. |inline
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