The following piece is written by Stan Gundry, and tells his story of moving from complementarianism to egalitarianism, and it shows the influence of Pat Gundry in Stan’s thinking. This story has been published elsewhere, and Stan has given me permission to publish it here. I should say that this story is a significantly formative story in the evangelical debate; Pat’s book is called Woman Be Free and Stan is a wise, balanced, mentor and guide at Zondervan today. |inline Read more
As I was standing talking to a friend at the Paraclete booth in the book exhibits Saturday at the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings, I happened to see my former Dean at Trinity seminary, Walt Kaiser, wander into the booth. He did not spot me, I spotted him and here’s what happened: |inline Read more
I spent Friday through Sunday in Washington, DC, at the Annual Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature — and on Friday I was at the Evangelical Theological Society. Because I have been pondering Psalm 119 the last month or so, the Psalm came to my mind often throughout my time there (seemingly hourly — and not just when I was seeing if anyone had any good new commentaries on Psalms). |inline Read more
Spirit of God, promise of Jesus, Come to our help at the close of this day. Come with forgiveness and healing love. Come with life and hope. Come with all that we need to continue in the way of your truth. So may we praise you in the Trinity forever. Amen. Read more
For Sarah Madvig, for healing. Lord, hear our prayer. For Janet Glover, for the grace of healing. Lord, hear our prayer. Add your prayers. Read more
The Real Mary is now out, but the requests for participating in the Street Team are still coming in. The publisher is asking folks to contact them by Monday if you are interested in discussing The Real Mary. PLEASE CONTACT JENNY LYNCH. Here is the original announcement. Read more
No speaking events until December. I must say that Don Johnson, over at Jibstay, is becoming one of our favorite bloggers. He’s creative, clever, and — on top of that — wise. My top three pastor sites are Jim Martin, Mark Rogers, and Don Johnson. Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s post on a missional pastor (HT: Bro Maynard). |inline Read more
I was delighted to see that Mark Driscoll has publicly responded on his blog to recent concerns about his intent in his posts about Ted Haggard. I believe his letter clarifies his intent; and I applaud the rhetorical tone of his most recent post. Keep it up brother. Read more
VATICAN CITY, Nov. 9 (UPI) — Vatican City will show a world premiere of a film for the first time when New Line’s “The Nativity Story” plays in the Vatican this month. |inline Read more
Wendell Berry’s Citizenship Papers is not an easy book to work through chp by chp because it is quite repetitive — but the chp “Two Minds” seems to me to put together some of his central ideas about a more sensitive concept of existing in the world in a responsible way. |inline Read more
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