Jesus Creed
How does Jesus counter the framing story of theocapitalism? Here, from Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change are the four counter framing stories for Jesus. |inline Read more
How does Jesus counter the framing story of theocapitalism? Here, from Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change are the four counter framing stories for Jesus. |inline Read more
Every year I keep my eyes open for the book that I will remember as the book I read over the Christmas break. This year I’ve got mine picked out, and if you like well-written but rich history this is a book you just might want to order yourself: Martin Goodman, Rome and Jerusalem. Christian historians have been repeating for years innocent, but sometimes mistaken, ideas about the relationship of Rome with Jews. And the entire interest today in Jesus,... Read more
We come to the end of our week with chp 8 in Walsh and Keesmaat’s Colossians Remixed, and this week has focused on their hermeneutical move from ancient text to postmodern world — what they are calling a “targum” on Colossians. |inline Read more
I’ve been there only once, but Kris and I will be there next weekend again. This time we will be at the Firs. It is an event open to the public and we’d be glad to meet you. The topic for the weekend is the Jesus Creed and Individualism. Read more
In the book unChristian by Kinnaman and Lyons, the first major area they examine where Christians are unChristian concerns hypocrisy. Don’t roll your eyes this time; there are some important things in this chp that I’m not sure are known well enough. Some of this might surprise you. |inline Read more
What do you eat for breakfast? Some years ago I was at my friend’s, Kermit Zarley’s, home, got up, asked him “What do you eat for breakfast?” and he told me this. Take one container of Yoplait (I think he liked peach), empty its contents into a cereal bowl, and then pour about a cup of raw oats into the bowl. That’s it. (Previously I had been cooking my oats for breakfast.) So, I gave it whirl — and I... Read more
Now for the final link in the targum of Colossians 3:1-4 by Walsh and Keesmaat (Colossians Remixed). |inline Read more
In Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change we are looking this week at “theocapitalism” (economic idolatry) and how Jesus’ framing story counters theocapitalism. |inline Read more
We’ve avoided this issue, but Tony Campolo and Stan Guthrie of CT are in a bit of a tiff on the Red Letter Christian issue. |inline Read more
OK, I’m no politician; nor am I deeply implicated in the political process. But for the love of pete — enough already! Two years of political debate and millions and millions of dollars … do we need this much? Why not do what we can to get the process changed and reduced to six months (or six weeks)? What can we do? Read more
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