Jesus Creed
Speaking of missional Jesus — in our passage today, from Luke 10:1-12, missional Jesus extends himself by sending out some missional disciples. |inline Read more
Speaking of missional Jesus — in our passage today, from Luke 10:1-12, missional Jesus extends himself by sending out some missional disciples. |inline Read more
I’ve received several e-mails today notifying me that Amazon.com is saying A Community called Atonement won’t ship until December. The fine folks down at Abingdon know the book is in stock at Amazon.com and also think you may have received an automated notice. They suggest checking your credit card to see if it is being billed; if so, the book is on its way. Any help will be of use to us. Community called Atonement Read more
If you were to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and either wander through the bookstalls or spend an hour or so with the book that lists sessions, times, and locations, one thing would surely strike you. As Tony LaRussa once told famed baseball writer George Will, “There’s a lot goes on.” So I want to start an approximate ten part series on knowing the currents that flow in the river called Biblical Studies. |inline Read more
My question is not about which is your favorite sports season of the year but which is your favorite “weather” season of the year? We offer a slight pity party for those in southern California and Arizona and Texas and Florida. For those of us who know and love the seasons, which is your favorite? What do you most like about that season? Www.weather.com has a poll on this. Read more
Here’s a challenge tossed out by missional Jesus and it is a challenged that shakes human relations to the core, opens up the potential for a society constituted on the basis of grace, and presents the follower of Jesus with a challenge that does not come naturally. Missional Jesus summons his followers to forgive others. |inline Read more
In her essay, “Procrustes and the Culture War,” Anne Fadiman warns us of getting caught on the bed of Procrustes — her image of getting caught up in the ideology of political correctness, of the ideology that you must toe the party line once you sign on the dotted line for that party. She contends that we are to judge literary works — and theological ones I might add — on a case by case method and not by needing... Read more
Every summer Bill Roberts, a former student of my father’s, invites along with my mom and dad both Kris and me to a game at Wrigley Field between the Cards and Cubs. They are all Cards fans, but we endure the occasional ribbing. We want to thank Bill again for another wonderful day yesterday at Wrigley … and the Cubs won yet again. (We’ve not seen the Cubs lose.) |inline Read more
No one, I’m prepared to announce, has figured out this text, but it needs to be factored in if we want to sketch all the texts about missional Jesus. So, let’s first read Mark 9:38-41 and then I’ll offer some suggestions: |inline Read more
Some years ago, when Kris and I were in England and I was working on my Ph.D., we attended St. Peter’s Toton, an Anglican church outside Nottingham. It was our first-ever experience of The Book of Common Prayer. Two things stood out in those days: (1) those prayers were mighty prayers and (2) lots of spontaneous prayers were, no matter how sincere, well … sloppy. I could say more. A few years back my editor at Paraclete, Lil Copan, was... Read more
Almighty God, who has given your only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin and also an example of his godly life: Give me grace that I may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit and also daily endeavor myself to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life; through the same your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.†Read more
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