Colossians Remixed 35

Last updated on: November 2, 2007 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Colossians 3:5-8 (see below) partakes in the discourse of violence according to Walsh and Keesmaat in their Colossians Remixed.Today we look at this passage. |inline Read more

Is Image Everything? 4

Last updated on: November 1, 2007 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

I’ve chosen to skip the chp in unChristian about Christians being antihomosexuality mostly because I’ve blogged about the issue enough of late. Instead, I’m skipping to chp 6 contends that nonChristians think Christians are sheltered. |inline Read more

AAR/SBL and Emergent

Last updated on: November 1, 2007 at 12:19 am By Scot McKnight

We are participating in an Emergent Church Forum at the same time professors are gathered for the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego. The date is Saturday, November 17, from 9am to 11:30am. The panelists are Tony Jones, Diana Butler Bass and I and the moderator, from Azusa Pacific University, is Keith Matthews. The meeting is at the San Diego Convention Center, in room CC-29C. Read more

First Day is Goldingay

Last updated on: November 1, 2007 at 12:15 am By Scot McKnight

We begin the month with a look at John Goldingay’s Israel’s Gospel (OT Theology), chp. 8, focusing on the period from Joshua to Solomon and the theme of God’s accomodating himself to Israel and life on planet earth. |inline Read more

Colossians Remixed 34

Last updated on: November 1, 2007 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Most importantly, the ethic of relationship and the ethic of narrative leads to an ethic of secession (from the empire) in Walsh and Keesmaat’s study of Colossians, Colossians Remixed. |inline Read more

Must Everything Change? 14

Last updated on: October 31, 2007 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Brian McLaren, in Everything Must Change, thinks Jesus counters the current framing story of the equity system. Here’s how: |inline Read more

Halloween: What do you do?

Last updated on: October 31, 2007 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

We’re not into Halloween much around here, except for the candy part, and Kris decided long ago not to dress the house or our kids up in ghost or witch outfits (or these). So, we have Fall decorations and some pumpkins and gourds and a dressed-up Teddy Bear. We used to enjoy going to the local grade school to watch the annual march of costumes, and couldn’t wait to see what the Dunlop kids had created for the year. One... Read more

Colossians Remixed 33

Last updated on: October 31, 2007 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

After mentioning that Paul’s ethic in Colossians is a resurrection, ascension, liberation, and eschatological ethic, Walsh and Keesmaat, in Colossians Remixed, contend also that the ethic of Paul is “relational” and “narrative” and (tomorrow’s post) an ethic of secession. |inline Read more

Is Image Everything? 3

Last updated on: October 30, 2007 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

One of the beefs non Christians have with Christians is their perception that Christians want them to “get saved!” So, Kinnaman and Lyons, in unChristian, study this them in chp. 4. This chp, however, is less about the perception that Christians want others to get saved and much more about the lack of transformation in the gospel of Christians. |inline Read more

Halloween Preparations

Last updated on: October 30, 2007 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

About two weeks before Halloween, Kris finds herself pondering what kinds of candy to give to the small number of kids who knock on our door and give us the meaningless options of “Trick or Treat.” About 11 days out one of us tests the bags of candies she has brought home, thinking we certainly won’t give them all away. So, last Sunday while Kris was gone I thought I’d try a Reese’s cup and Kris, immediately noticing that a... Read more