By Deacon Godsey, MANT student at Northern Seminary #TAKEAKNEE, part 1 Deacon Godsey Pastor, Vintage Church I recently read Philippians 2:1-11 and reflected on #TakeAKnee, exploring what it means for us as part of the wider, global Christian family to bow our knees to the Lordship of Jesus when it comes to interacting with those we may disagree with. #TakeAKnee has been virtually unavoidable in our national discourse this past week as Donald Trump used his bully pulpit in Alabama... Read more

O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. BCP Read more

Great to see this about one of our DMin students, Kristen Marble: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.— Many people have heard about Little Free Libraries, the bird house-like cabinets popping up across the country asking people to take, borrow or donate books. But have people heard of Little Free Pantries? A Little Free Pantry is typically a wooden cabinet with unlocked doors, only a few feet in diameter, and stocked with non-perishable food items, toiletries and other donations. They pop up in front... Read more

This interview of me comes from The Overthinking Christian website, and I thank Paul Moldovan for the freedom to repost it here. [SMcK: My favorite book on the New Perspective.] 1) You have noted elsewhere that you were there during the formation of the NPP. How was this experience? Do you remember your initial reaction to the ideas proposed, and have you grown since then? The singular moment, which crystallized the NPP, was the publication in 1977 of E.P. Sanders’... Read more

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Very fine work has been done by Luke Roberts in his bachelor’s thesis. Here’s a clip of some of his ideas posted at The Anxious Bench: Conversations about national defense in 2017 reveal that, for many, the rules of war are not what they once were. This has been evidenced by calls for travel bans and drone strikes, but perhaps no area has seen as dramatic a shift due to the events of the 21st century as the practice of torture.... Read more

The awe of science … and a pastor’s take on the Big Story. Two years ago, after a major upgrade LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, came back online and immediately detected gravity waves emanating from the collapse of of two black holes into one more than a billion years ago. Two interferometers with arms 2.5 miles long, one in Louisiana and the other in Washington State saw the clear signature 7 milliseconds apart. This was the culmination of decades... Read more

That is one of the most important questions Greg Boyd asks in his The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. I don’t think many notice and fewer both to investigate, but Boyd does. Alongside his theories of redemptive withdrawal and divine accommodation, Boyd takes the issue of humans vs. divine, divine vs. humans up into the principle of Dual Speech. Here’s what he means: It concerns the curious fact that biblical authors frequently depict God engaging in acts of violence that... Read more

By David Sessions the Student Minister at the Highland Church of Christ. David got his MDiv from Lipscomb and is currently in a Growing Young Cohort at Fuller Seminary. I don’t want to do youth ministry anymore. After ten years of work in churches and private Christian schools, I am now 34 and I require a trip to chiropractor to fully recover from overnight trips. But that’s not why I’m done. I have a growing number of students who have... Read more

What happened at the cross and after it the resurrection? Metaphors are applied time and time again. At first they blow fresh air on atonement theology and then they wear out. New ones come and go; old ones appear and then fade. Thomas Andrew Bennett, in his new Labor of God, contends the old metaphors revolving around sacrifice and substitution have faded from potency and we need fresh air: his proposal is “labor of God” as a fresh angle on... Read more