Jesus Creed
Congrats to Florida and Maryland, and they are both so young. Some thoughts: |inline Read more
Congrats to Florida and Maryland, and they are both so young. Some thoughts: |inline Read more
Kris and I will be in the Cinque Terra (Italy) for a week at the turn of June, and wonder if any of you have been to Pisa and would recommend it as worth a day trip for us? Good story from Karen about Agnes. Karen can tell a story. 1.Jim Martin has some good observations on “mean Christians.” |inline Read more
Dave Miller writes and sings a song about Justin Delp, who had a degenerative disease that took Justin’s life as pre-teen. Justin and Jesus were alike. This song is worth the price of admission; it is called “Just Longing.” |inline Read more
This year I’ve been eating lunch with students on most Tuesdays and Thursdays, and we invited a few of them over for pizza this evening. Here’s a pic of the crowd in our home at the end of the evening. The big part of the night was when Matt Enquist, discovering that he could use our Wi-Fi, enlisted me as a member of FaceBook. What a discovery when I asked how many had been to CHIC and everyone of them... Read more
CNN and a couple of publishers — HarperSanFrancisco and National Geographic — coordinated their efforts yesterday to inform us all of yet another newsworthy religious story: the true story of Judas. NG has published an official translation of The Gospel of Judas and I want to record some overall observations today, and Monday I’ll pick it up again. |inline Read more
LeRon Shults examines what salvation looks like after the “turn to relationality.” If life is inherently about relationships, what does salvation look like? If it is not about substance but about relationships, what about salvation? What happens to all our important theological categories if the essence of reality is genuinely relational? Alot! |inline Read more
Suffering was inevitable for Peter’s powerless Christian parishes. Peter has one clear point of view: any suffering ought to be the result of being a Christian. It is summed up in bearing the “name.” |inline Read more
First, keep the battery charged. I got to the airport last Friday, our flight was delayed for a good long while, and so I called the pastor of the church we were going to (Eastpoint Community Church), and realized it was my last call of the day: the battery went out on me. |inline Read more
In Dave Miller’s new CD, Dave Miller, explores in song how we as Christians can look at our work and turn it from labor to vocation. What got me going about these songs was the confidence of the voice when talking about Jesus the worker and the wonder , even melancholy, when it comes to what we are doing. |inline Read more
In the second part of Shults’ chapter on facing, forgiveness and salvation, Shults looks at what the Christian tradition means by forgiveness. Shults seeks here to liberate the idea of forgiveness from judicial metaphors and make room for the reality that forgiveness “really changes lives” (125). If you had to define forgiveness, how would you define it? I’m willing to suggest that this section in Sandage/Shults is an enormous challenge to the overemphasis on satisfaction and penal substitution in much... Read more
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