Are Women meant to wield society power? (by Katelyn Beaty)

Last updated on: May 5, 2015 at 5:23 am By Scot McKnight

ARE WOMEN MEANT TO WIELD SOCIETAL POWER? (A response to “Males and Their Friends,” by Alastair Roberts) The following is an adapted excerpt from the forthcoming book Co.Creators: The Christian Call for Women to Work (Howard/Simon&Schuster, summer 2016). Katelyn Beaty is print managing editor of Christianity Today magazine, where she co-founded Her.meneutics in 2009. Today when we hear the word patriarchy, we think of something like this definition from sociologist Allan G. Johnson, author of The Gender Knot: A society... Read more

Ten Most Polluted Cities

Last updated on: April 30, 2015 at 4:56 pm By Scot McKnight

Source: Fresno-Madera, Calif. Bakersfield, Calif. Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, Calif. Modesto-Merced, Calif. Los Angeles-Long Beach, Calif. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, Calif. Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, Utah Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area Fairbanks, Alaska Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, Pa.-Ohio-W.Va. Read more

Rethinking Male-Centered Translations of the Bible

Last updated on: May 4, 2015 at 6:34 am By Scot McKnight

From Arise By Jon Zens is an American author, speaker, scholar and theologian on Christian topics. Zens is best known for pioneering New Covenant Theology, which sees the entire Bible as a revelation of the gospel of grace fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Jon has been the editor of Searching Together since 1978. He has a BA from Covenant College, an MDiv from Westminster Seminary, and a DMin from the California Graduate School of Theology. Jon and his wife, Dotty also have a ministry that aids... Read more

Does God’s Mercy Endure Forever, or Does it End?

Last updated on: August 1, 2017 at 5:57 pm By Scot McKnight

Rob Bell asked the question if God’s mercy would endure forever so that people would have opportunities to turn to God in the afterlife (postmortem opportunity = PO) or if that mercy would end at death. Bell’s answer was a deft move in rhetoric: love wins, he said. Dante’s famous Divine Comedy disagrees for in it we read this famous line in the entrance into inferno: “Abandon every hope, who enter here.” Jerry Walls, in Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory asks if God’s mercy... Read more

On Habits and Clerical Collars

Last updated on: May 3, 2015 at 1:22 pm By Scot McKnight

By Elizabeth Scalia, from First Things, who observed a Sister remove the customary “habit” only to observe it was not a step in the direction the Sister thought: Does the same apply to pastors/priests wearing a collar? Perfectae Caritatis, the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life, wisely counseled in favor of adapting religious habits in practical ways, but never decreed that habits should be discarded. The religious habit, an outward mark of consecration to... Read more

On Amnesty for Undocumented Workers

Last updated on: May 3, 2015 at 1:25 pm By Scot McKnight

Jerome R. Corsi: Where do you stand on this? Is there a biblical case for amnesty? HOUSTON – Several different Hispanic evangelicals leaders speaking at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference in Houston this week argued a biblical basis for the Obama administration’s push to grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants currently in the United States. While the NHCLC is a conservative Christian organization that generally sides with Republican conservatives on moral issues, including opposition to same-sex marriage and a... Read more

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Last updated on: May 2, 2015 at 11:05 am By Scot McKnight

Almighty God, Whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, That we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; Through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God, for ever and ever. Amen. BCP Read more

Weekly Meanderings, 2 May 2015

Last updated on: April 30, 2015 at 5:04 pm By Scot McKnight

Great story by Brian Hamilton about Austin Hatch: Austin Hatch closed his regular playing career on Monday, going from a rising sophomore guard to a role as an undergraduate student assistant with theMichigan basketball program via a medical scholarship. Somehow this seems trifling, like a decision to switch shirts in the morning or to buy a different brand of snack chips. The ability to bounce a ball and consistently float it through an 18-inch rim didn’t define Hatch before he survived two... Read more

The Jesus Prayer

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 2:36 pm By Scot McKnight

Have you ever tried to practice the Jesus Prayer? By Fr. Dn. Charles Joiner “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner” This prayer has the potential to transform your consciousness and bring you closer to God. It is a prayer rooted deeply in the tradition of the Church. It is a prayer to be repeated over and over, many times. You can begin to develop the use of this prayer by incorporating a number of repetitions... Read more

Over to You

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 2:35 pm By Scot McKnight

A quotation here from Harvey Cox, a quotation passed on to me, and I quote it to generate a conversation. I can say the same for most church bodies and African Americans, and for many and Latin Americans, and for Asian Americans… what do we lose in the silencing or segregating of voices? Over to you. Talking about the silencing of women which came out of the early church reading of Paul: Whether this was the case or not, the... Read more