One of the themes I will try to develop in this haphazard series on Women and ministry is that “minstry” can’t be limited to ordination and serving as a senior pastor in a local church. In fact, I want to expand our sense of ministry and to do this we can consider the example of Phyllis Tickle. |inline Read more
In our two-day introduction to Romans 13:1-7, we now turn to Wright’s taxonomy of how folks read this passage. The questions are easy, if doubly hard to answer: Which is your view? Why? |inline Read more
The answer, in general, is no. (I need to say that gently as I am in Grand Rapids today to give some lectures.) So argues Roger Olson is his brand-new must-read Arminian Theology. I’ll do a series on this book. The book has one major goal: “to clear the good Arminian name of false accusations and charges of heresy or heterodoxy” (9). If you have ever called Arminianism “semi-Pelagianism” or “Pelgianism” you need this book — and you will be... Read more
Social context shapes how we read the Bible, and the 16th chp in J. Holcomb’s Christian Theologies of Scripture is written by L.B. Baldwin and S.W. Murphy on how Scripture works in the African American tradition. I’ve posted on this topic before; you may recall that I’m a huge fan of Brian Blount’s Then the Whisper Became Flesh. |inline Read more
Wright’s introductory comments about Romans 13:1-7 are so suggestive, I want to take two days to ponder them. I begin today by quoting the passage and then offering an introductory point by Wright that I think we simply have to consider: |inline Read more
Steve McCoy, in our family of bloggers, posts a picture of his mother who has been diagnosed with cancer. Please pray for her and for Steve and all around them. Read more
Lord, You have always given bread for the coming day; and though I am poor, today I believe. |inline Read more
The best blog not enough are reading: Michael Kruse and the Kruse Kronicle. He’s got good, thoughtful stuff, and he keeps blogging away. Bob Robinson on the prosperity gospel. |inline Read more
I am at Crossroads College in Rochester, MN, and am honored to have been chosen to give the Earl Grice Lectures, and my subject is atonement. I have been hosted by Mark Weedman and Mike Benson, and they have been wondrous hosts. And I had a workout yesterday: a lecture, a luncheon with pastors at which time I presented some ideas from Embracing Grace, and then a bookstore session of signing and talking, dinner with Mike, Mark and their wives,... Read more
The conversation of friends, the great Samuel Johnson once said, is nothing more than a “calm interchange of sentiments.” And Joseph Epstein, in his Friendship: An Expose, devotes an entire chp to the talk of friends. Here’s how he defines such talk: |inline Read more
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