I’ve done my best to avoid bringing back my class, “Women, Mary and Jesus,” onto this blog but I’ve read a book recently — and we discussed it in class — that I think you should know about: John Stackhouse, Finally Feminist. There are a few very big ideas at work in this book that I think make it unique and valuable — beside being short and clearly written: |inline Read more
As many of you know, we’re doing a series with Dan de Roulet, an English professor, about reading fiction and we’re using “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor to get to some of the issues in reading fiction. So, here’s Dan response to my last post: |inline Read more
I sometimes am told that the Jesus Creed is simple, or soft-headed and mushy, or light. I know whereof such persons speak because I once thought that way. But, the more I study the New Testament and the more I examine my own life and how to live, the more convinced I am that the Jesus Creed, while it may sound simple, is the most demanding command of Jesus. Not only that, the Jesus Creed was picked up in the... Read more
A reader writes me this set of questions and I’ve cobbled together two exchanges with him about this issue… but the words are his: |inline Read more
The fundamental problem in discerning how we look at “work” is dualism — the one that contends what really matters is the spiritual while the material is not as important. Darrell Cosden, in The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work, turns in chp 2 to evangelicalism’s view of work — and it all leads him to the value of Luther and the problems Luther himself imported into the Christian understanding of work. The big question: Does work matter? And, for Cosden,... Read more
We are looking forward to Pentecost in this series, and to do that we are blogging through 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed as a form of preparation. Today I want to suggest four principles of a person who practices Pentecost and we find these in Matthew 7:1-12. |inline Read more
We’ve seen some old (bird) friends, some new ones … we’ve seen lots of birds this Spring: |inline Read more
Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
44 years ago in Chicago, the Beatles: |inline Read more
We continue our series on Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent, and today we look at the parable of the wheat and weeds. |inline Read more
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