Jesus Creed
The polar bear baby video and a picture and now a name:
Stephen Tomkins’ gift seems to be irony and the ability to prick the halo bubble around saints, which he did with John Wesley
Over Christmas break I read six biographies, one of which I posted about already but which will come up again later this week. Today I want to focus on my favorite biography of the break: that of William Tyndale, by David Daniell called William Tyndale: A Biography
My Weekly Meanderings will be sparse this week with so much of our time spent traveling and with family.
You thinking of blogging? (HT: Henriet)
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My Weekly Meanderings will be sparse this week with so much of our time spent traveling and with family.
You thinking of blogging? (HT: Henriet)
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Friday and Saturday, along with Kevin Vanhoozer and Edith Humphrey, as well as Howard Snyder, Vince Bacote, David Fitch, and David Neff, I participated in the Ancient-Evangelical Future Call conference at Northern Baptist’s Seminary‘s pleasant surroundings. |inline
Not all the turkeys of this world have been pardoned … and we will be eating one that hasn’t been pardoned.
A pastor who suddenly discovered 99% of the words in the Bible had mysteriously vanished, said this to his wife: “I don’t know what I’m going to do. What’s going to happen to our ministry? With no Bible to teach and preach, I’m headed for joblessness.” These are the words in John Frye’s new novel, Out of Print
, that express the dilemma created when the words began to disappear from every Bible in the world. |inline
I grew up among dispensationalists and the first Bible I bought, with my newspaper money, was a KJV Scofield Bible. The singular feature of dispensationalism that has bothered more than a few of us is the graphic realization that dispensationalism only arose at the end of the 19th Century, crept into the USA and virtually took over the evangelical world — well, that’s one of the stories that has been told. A more accurate story will tell you … |inline
One of the advantages of flying, as we did this weekend (to Seattle), is some extra time for reading and on the flight out and back I read a book I consider a must-read for all church leaders: Robert Wuthnow, After the Baby Boomers
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