Colossians Remixed 32

Last updated on: October 30, 2007 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Walsh and Keesmaat, in their Colossians Remixed, want to know “what kind of ethic” we find in Colossians 3:1-17. Good discussion follows. |inline Read more

Must Everything Change? 13

Last updated on: October 29, 2007 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Part 7 of Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Changeconcerns the “equity” system, the system’s ability to balance resources among its people. The question that animates part 7 is this: Why are the poor poor? |inline Read more

Zarley Lectures

Last updated on: October 29, 2007 at 12:25 am By Scot McKnight

Randall Balmer, professor at Columbia University, will be on campus at NPU today to give the Zarley Lectures. Balmer is an expert on American religious history and has become a specialist on the relationship of evangelicalism to cultural forces — and things are changing.. The lectures, Monday and Tuesday at 3:30 at the chapel at North Park, are open to the public. Here are few of my favorites of his books: |inline Read more

Presbyterians in Evanston

Last updated on: October 29, 2007 at 12:20 am By Scot McKnight

Friday evening Kris and I drove down to Evanston for an event at 1st Presbyterian Church in Evanston. We had a wonderful time at this historic and influential church in the heart of Evanston. |inline Read more

Colossians Remixed 31

Last updated on: October 29, 2007 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Walsh and Keesmaat, in their ever-provocative study of Colossians in light of postmodernity, Colossians Remixed, devote a chp to Colossians 3 under the thematic heading of “an ethic of secession.” Today we look at how postmoderns view ethical teachings in the New Testament. |inline Read more

Prayer for the Week

Last updated on: October 28, 2007 at 12:10 am By Scot McKnight

Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more

Emergent Church Forum

Last updated on: October 28, 2007 at 12:05 am By Scot McKnight

We are participating in an Emergent Church Forum at 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. Read more

Weekly Meanderings

Last updated on: October 27, 2007 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

City of next year’s World Series champion: |inline Read more

Do you pray with beads?

Last updated on: October 27, 2007 at 12:15 am By Scot McKnight

I confess I have never prayed with beads, either the Orthodox kind or the Catholic kind. I confess, though, that I do have a rosary I bought in Asissi and which drapes over a Franciscan cross in my office. So, I was pleased to see that Nan Lewis Doerr and Virginia Stem Owens have now published Praying with Beads. Ever since I developed the Jesus Creed stuff and then wrote Praying with the ChurchI have paid attention to books on... Read more

Friday is for Friends

Last updated on: October 26, 2007 at 12:30 am By Scot McKnight

Marko Rupnik’s In the Fire of the Burning Bush is an exposition of the Christian life by a Roman Catholic in terms of Eastern Orthodoxy. The book is rich, evocative, and penetrating. |inline Read more