Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; 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
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Northern Seminary is sponsoring a tour to Turkey and Greece to visit the sits of the apostles Paul and John. And I will be the lead teacher. Our tour will be nearly two weeks long and we will visit major cities and sites. The tour also will include a marvelous stop at none other than gorgeous Santorini, that lovely Greek island, and we will have daily Bible studies focused on the life and mission of the apostle Paul and some... Read more
THEIR ROCK IS NOT LIKE OUR ROCK: A THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS Daniel Strange is Academic Vice Principal and Lecturer in Culture, Religion, and Public Theology at Oak Hill College (London, UK). The following interview is based on Dan’s book, Their Rock is not Like our Rock. The interview was conducted by David George Moore. Dave blogs at www.twocities.org. Moore: What does it mean that you lecture on “public theology”? Strange: Great question. When I took the post I didn’t really... Read more
Moriah Balingit, on teaching: McGranaghan now teaches environmental science at Loudoun Valley High School, and his unorthodox class gets his teen students into the wild as much as possible. They take field trips in canoes and hike to the woods nearby to study trees and wildlife. Students even suit up in galoshes to wade into a nearby stream to measure its water quality. McGranaghan was one of 15 winners of the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators, an honor given... Read more
Source: Raising children in today’s hectic society comes with a lot more challenges than it did just 20 or 30 years ago; we now have more demanding jobs, constant distractions with our phones and other technology, and just busier lives in general. Somewhere in the mix, parents have to rear their children, and disciplining them is a huge part of the process. Unfortunately, behavioral problems in children are much more prevalent today, but this one simple habit can actually create more... Read more
I have officiated three funerals in the last two weeks, one of them was my mother’s. In the midst of these times of sorrow and grief, someone asked me if Jesus ever laughed. I actually liked the question. We have no question about Jesus being “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,”but did Jesus have a raucous belly laugh? We know that the Bible does record that “Jesus wept,”but we have no record that “Jesus laughed.” The Gospels don’t... Read more
Church refugees — those active former church folks — are sometimes called the Dones. They are done with church but not with their faith, not with Christianity, not with God, and not with Jesus. They are Done with church (as they have experienced it). Why? The number one reason traced and mapped by Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope (Church Refugees) is that the place where they found and wanted and needed community became a place of judgment rather than affirmation and... Read more
From Kate Shellnutt: Even if you’ve never heard of “vocal fry” or “upspeak,” you probably hear people speak in these patterns every day. Vocal fry is when someone’s voice gets lower and turns gravely, usually drawn out at the end of a sentence. It’s the sound of the next generation: in a study published in theJournal of Voice, more than two-thirds of female college students spoke with vocal fry. The low, guttural affectation has been dismissed—mostly by old guys —as annoying and... Read more
I cannot imagine anything more rewarding for understanding the first three decades of the church than taking a tour of places where Paul and John established and wrote to churches. So I’m hoping you will consider joining us … I am preparing special talks (not long lectures) on each of Paul’s letters and as often as possible in the location to which Paul wrote the letters. Northern Seminary is sponsoring a tour to Turkey and Greece to visit the sits... Read more
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