The subject of this blog for the last week has been on the Bible and the claim of its inerrancy, so it is the right time to look at Rowan Williams’ chapter on the Bible in his little book, Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer. In the chapter’s first paragraph we read, “One of the things that Christian people characteristically do is read the Bible — or rather, in quite a lot of circumstances, they have the Bible read to them”... Read more
A young black man is dead. The evidence is not clear to all, but there is certainly no reason for an unarmed man with his hands in the air to be fired upon by police. Source: Family members say he was a recent graduate of nearby Normandy High School and was going to begin classes at Vatterott College on Monday. Brown and a friend were walking to Harris’ house, his mother and grandmother said, when a Ferguson police officer confronted... Read more
Source: Peter Greer (@peterkgreer) is president and CEO of HOPE International. Chris Horst (@chrishorst) is the vice president of development at HOPE International. Together with the support of Anna Haggard, they coauthored Mission Drift and Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing. They wrote this essay with support from HOPE intern, Andrey Bobrovskiy. … For centuries, the local church was the centerpiece of outreach and service. The rapid creation of separate parachurch organizations is a relatively recent phenomenon. Para, parachurch’s prefix, is Greek for... Read more
Lynn Cohick, NT professor at Wheaton and author of Philippians in the Story of God Bible Commentary (and also co-editor of the series). I appreciate the desire to bring the gospel to those in our society who have written it off as not for them. Ed Stetzer focuses on one such group, adult (presumably white) males in the US. He shows that the vision of discipleship laid out in the gospel is compatible with being a man or being masculine, while... Read more
America exports its goods giving it a worldwide influence, including its sports — basketball and (American) football and baseball. Of course baseball is played elsewhere, and baseball in the Dominican is special, but these are American-shaped sports. But would a Dominican say baseball is an American sport? (Not on your life.) Is inerrancy a game American evangelicals play? Mike Bird, in his essay “Inerrancy is not necessary for evangelicalism outside the USA” in the book Five Views of Biblical Inerrancy, thinks... Read more
The 614th Commandment “I ask you, then, has God rejected his People?” That’s Paul’s first question immediately following today’s long, thick passage: ‘Has God rejected the Jews?’ (Because they reject God in Christ?) You shouldn’t answer too hastily. A couple of years ago, Ali and I were traveling in Southern France, and one hot, sunny day we toured a museum in Nice devoted to Mark Chagall, the Jewish artist who was born in Russia and fled to France... Read more
Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
Source: During excavations along the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists discovered a ceramic moneybox containing 114 bronze coins. Each of the coins features a chalice and the Hebrew inscription “To the Redemption of Zion” on one side and, on the other side, a motif of palm branches and citron fruits with the Hebrew inscription “Year Four”—a reference to the fourth year of the Great Revolt against the Romans (69/70 C.E.). The revolt ended... Read more
Handmade poppies for the Tower of London: Good news for Becky Hammon: The San Antonio Spurs made history Tuesday by hiring six-time WNBA all-star Becky Hammon as an assistant coach, making her the first full-time female assistant coach in any of the four major professional sports. Hammon, a two-time first-team all-WNBA player who had spent the past eight seasons with the San Antonio Stars during a 16-year career in the league, served as an unofficial coaching intern last season with... Read more
Source: “Christianity in Mosul is dead, and a Christian holocaust is in our midst,” said Mark Arabo, a Californian businessman and Chaldean-American leader. In an interview with CNN’s Jonathan Mann, he called what’s happening in Iraq a “Christian genocide” and said “children are being beheaded, mothers are being raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.” “Right now, three thousand Christians are in Iraq fleeing to neighboring cities,” he told Mann. Arabo is calling on the international community to follow... Read more
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