Last April, Bob Smietana, a fine editor for Covenant Companion and someone with exceptional instincts for what is going on in the American church, and I were having coffee at Tre Kronor (a local, Swedish restaurant) when he simply suggested that I should try blogging. “I think you’d like it, Scot.” To which I said, “Bob, I know nothing about it.” To which he said, “Go to blogger.com, and in five minutes you’ll have a blog running.” So I did... Read more
Kris and I, with the whole family in tow, will be in Mexico next week (Ixtapa), leaving Friday (tomorrow). I’ll be posting daily, but not sure when I’ll be able to put the posts up. I get up early, especially when on vacation, so it could be early. HT: James Taylor Read more
The following is a review of Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger’s important book, Transformative Encounters, and was not published. It was written to be read at an SBL meeting, and then the session fell through and I was left with this review. Somewhere out there in cyberspace this review appeared earlier. |inline Read more
So, we are now ready to ask, What did Jesus think of women and How did Jesus treat women? I provide a series of questions for your consideration. A good place to begin here is with D.M. Scholer, “Women,” or with B. Witherington III, Women. (These items can be found in the first post in this series.) |inline Read more
In the good ol’ USA, high schools and sports are combined. Which means, every high school has a “nickname.” Most recent debates about nicknames have bee about political correctness, especially with respect to Native Americans. (I’ll avoid that one for now.) I happen to have grown up with one of the cruelest nicknames known to mankind. (Which maybe I’ve mentioned before.) |inline Read more
I’ve gone on record at not being a big fan of envisioning the Christian life through the spiritual disciplines, though I’m all for them. I just don’t think the way to approach the Christian life is through a means but through the end: to love God and to love others. The best recent book I’ve seen on the disciplines is that of Tony Jones, The Sacred Way. My son, who is a baseball guy, liked the book, and that says... Read more
What about “other” women? Those who were not the “norm”? Those who lived on the margins? |inline Read more
Kris and I have for years set our clocks ahead — usually about 4 minutes. The wristwatch I wear is four minutes ahead. All the clocks in our home, and we have plenty of them, are at least four minutes ahead. In fact, the clock in our car is set about 11 minutes ahead. We must fear being late more than most things, so it is not unusual for me to get to school an hour and half before classes.... Read more
What could women in the Jewish world do in public? This is often overstated in order to dramatize the difference with Jesus and the early churches. So a good look at some of the evidence may help all of us. |inline Read more
The newspaper reports have it that the Cubs are working on a deal with Baltimore to bring Tejada to the Cubs. What we read in the paper is that the Cubs have talked about trading either Zambrano (a Knight-Ridder report) or Prior (everyone says this). Would you trade a starting pitcher for a SS? |inline Read more
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