Judgment : What We Eat Matters (Jeff Cook) The grand ambition of the devils in CS Lewis’s Screwtape Letters is to ingest both the souls of the human beings they tempt and to devour one another. The satanic aim is the consumption of other personalities. The Accuser (and those who reflect him) ingest through accusations. We know the feeling. When I judge others I am actually feeding. No matter what rank or demographic of person I critique, I cannot help but feel... Read more
Lauren Visser is one of our DMin students and a youth pastor in Chicagoland, and her heart breaks for the kids who played for Jackie Robinson West. If you don’t know the story: JRW is a Little League franchise that won the USA tournament but lost in the World championship. Just recently their trophy was taken back because of inappropriate expansion of borders to determine who could play in their league. Lauren doesn’t question this part of it but instead... Read more
This post by T. The Primacy of Pastor-ing Just a few posts ago, John Frye put up a controversial post here, titled “The Primacy of Pastor” which received not a little push back, including from me. For this post, though, I’d like to focus on what I hope can be a source of at least some agreement with the spirit, if not the letter, of John’s post. As some folks mentioned in the comments. The issue is really one of... Read more
In a most fascinating study by Jamin Hübner, called “The Evolution of Complementarian Exegesis,” Priscilla Papers 29 (2015) 11-13, we are treated to specific examples of complementarians (=hierarchicalists, =patriarchalists) shifting their views on points of exegesis. The changes are the result of further study but the conclusion Hübner draws is that complementarians have not had as stable an exegesis as many think. [All citations are from the pages above. Image credit] Susan Foh [1979] We have concluded that… 1 Timothy 2:12 is intended... Read more
O God, Who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory. 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
Jeremiah Gibbs: One year ago this week I wrote that Grace Church of Noblesville, IN, (a northern Indianapolis suburb) had publicly changed their position intheir weekend services to support women at all levels of leadership. The previous article was viewed nearly 20,000 times and sparked articles about the sermon in national media. Readers were encouraged that a church of this size and significance would make such a bold move in spite of what it might cost them. It would have been easy to back... Read more
Friends and readers of the Jesus Creed blog will know that I post at times the sermons of a young, gifted narrative preacher, Jason Micheli. I’m asking you to pray for Jason and Ali and their two sons at this time, I’m asking you to pray for his good friend and fellow pastor Dennis Perry, and the whole fellowship at Aldersgate. Here’s what Jason, who blogs at the “tamed cynic,” posted at his blog: Image Dear friends, HEWHOMUSTNOTBENAMED and random visitors,... Read more
Mimi Haddad, from Arise: Dr. Mimi Haddad is president of Christians for Biblical Equality. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. She holds a PhD in historical theology from the University of Durham, England. She and her husband, Dale, live in the Twin Cities. Follow her on Twitter @Mimi_CBE. As the film industry promotes “Fifty Shades of Grey,” launching on Valentine’s Day, I sit beside sixty scholars, activists, and faith leaders from more than twenty... Read more
Fear and memory, by Leslie Evans Ogden: The experience inspired McKinnon, now a clinical psychologist, to study what trauma does to the brain – how it changes what we remember and why some people experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In recent years, she and a number of other researchers have been trying to understand what makes fearful experiences seem to become imprinted so deeply in our brains. And if they can understand why trauma has such a profound and... Read more
WaPo by Brigid Schulte: Can we all just stop? How many times have you grumbled about your e-mail. Then, in a burst of faux productivity, fired off a bunch just to get them out of your inbox? How often have you felt virtuously busy and productive all day, only, at the end of it to realize all you’ve done is … e-mail. We hate it. We love it. And, not surprisingly, the fourth annual Top Time Killers survey released Tuesday... Read more
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