Jesus Creed
Is your e-mail inbox stuffed to the max? Here’s my theory: |inline Read more
Is your e-mail inbox stuffed to the max? Here’s my theory: |inline Read more
Kris and I listened last night to James Dobson’s criticisms of Barack Obama’s 2006 speech. I found it on the “Listen to Daily Broadcast”. I don’t know if it is archived, but I did my best to listen carefully and fairly. What to say? |inline Read more
A regular question I get asked goes something like this: “If you believe in a robust gospel, how then do you evangelize?” I’ve got two books to recommend to you: |inline Read more
One of the most significant ports in all of Italy was Rome’s port at Ostia, now called Ostia antica. The port was on the Tiber and on the coast, though the growing problem with silt accumulation made it less than the best of ports. Anyway, Ostia was a big place … bigger in size than Pompei. By the end of the 1st Century AD, it had it all … including … |inline Read more
I read John de Gruchy’s Confessions of a Christian Humanist for a variety of reasons, not the least of which were that he is a South African liberation theologian and because I think his expression for himself, a Christian humanist, is a very good way to describe many in the emerging movement. |inline Read more
I have a recommendation for you. It is a recommendation to use a prayer book during July. Kris and I will be using Mark Van Steenwyk’s new The Missio Dei Breviary. As some of you know, I have myself written a book about using prayer books (Praying with the Church), so you might need to begin there. But the real work is the daily use of a prayer book, and we will be using the Missio Dei Breviary for one... Read more
The ruins at Pompei are enormous and breathtaking. We tromped through the place for about 4 hours … with the specter of Vesuvius in the background, one could not avoid imagining what it was like in 79 AD when Vesuvius exploded and devastated this beautiful Roman city. |inline Read more
If step one in Stackhouse’s theory of Christian realism is to sketch his method, step two is to provide the big themes that put all of Christian realism and ethics in context. This is all found in chp 6 of Making the Best of It. His question, “Who are we, for Jesus Christ, today?,” is set now in the context of the biblical Story. (Everyone “Stories” today; good, we need to.) |inline Read more
Sam Warren, a former pastor and now the national director of Christian nurture in the Advent Christian Church invited me to give two workshops and be a plenary speaker at the Triennial meetings of the denomination. So, Saturday morning I drove down to Naperville and had a wonderful time … meeting Sam and speaking and listening. |inline Read more
We stayed in Ravello, a small town sitting atop a mountainous region above the Amalfi coastline. Today I want to post some pictures of the various places on the coastline we visited on our vacation. |inline Read more
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