Back in July I put up a post Adam, Adam, Adam, Wright that discussed a range of views on the topic of Adam. In the post I quoted from an interview between Andrew Wilson and N.T. Wright where the question of Adam came up. Recently I happened on another interview, this one when Justin Brierley put listener questions to Wright on his (Justin’s) radio show Unbelievable. The link to the show: NT Wright on Paul, Hell, Satan, Creation, Adam, Eve... Read more
By Leslie Leyland Fields, What Do We Do with a Past that Haunts Us? Based on Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers: Finding Freedom from Hate and Hurt, Thomas Nelson, Jan. 2014) A woman follows me out of the conference room and confronts me. I’ve just finished speaking on forgiveness. She looks at me with a mix of defiance and fear. “Do I have to forgive my father?” she asked, her eyes unmoving from mine. I take a breath slowly, then... Read more
A wonderful letter from a hearing-impaired child to Derrick Coleman, hearing-impaired Seattle Seahawk: Read more
Source: Almost 50 years after the U.S. Surgeon General declared cigarettes to be harmful for your health, a study from Washington State has found that cigarette smoking has gone up on a global scale. A staggering 1 billion people worldwide are still smokers. Between the years 1980 and 2012 the number of adult smokers went from 721 million to about 1 billion. In comparison, the approximate number of cigarettes smoked went from 5 trillion to 6.25 trillion. You may ask... Read more
Barna I find this infographic from David Kinnaman and the crew at Barna to be both interesting and of use to church leaders today. Why such a disparity for millennials between trusting public institutions but not the church? Read more
From Jonathan Storment: One of the reasons Scot asked me to write this column was to help share what I am wrestling with at a local church level. And so for the next few weeks I would like to talk about the biggest crisis the church I preach at is facing. I want to talk about the ways we are trying to address it, but also find out how other churches are dealing with it. It is not a crisis... Read more
Early in the 20th Century the famed liberal pastor-author, Harry Emerson Fosdick, preached a controversial sermon entitled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” He preached in a day when newspapers covered famous pastors’ sermons. This is discussed in Christopher Evans, Liberalism without Illusions (Baylor, 2013). The question is a worthy one to return to early in the 21st Century. Evans’ study is worthy of careful consideration: 1. The liberal approach to populist evangelicalism was ridicule and insult. Evans thinks liberals need to move... Read more
From Josh Graves: I’m told that some Benedictine monks sleep in their coffin every night. This helps them bodily remember that they are dying, that they were “dust and to dust they shall return” . . . I guess a sticky note on the bathroom medicine cabinet isn’t sufficient. They need the actual coffin in their room. Every night. Dying so that they might live another day. If I’d had a coffin with me the night following my surfing adventure,... Read more
The second chapter in The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: Science and Theology in Western and Orthodox Realms was written by Denis Alexander, a molecular biologist, the emeritus director of the The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge (UK), and the author of many scientific articles in molecular immunology, as well as the book Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?. I’ve had the privilege of meeting Denis a few times and of hearing him talk about... Read more
A post by the author of the brand new book, Confessing the Sins of our Fathers and Mothers, by Leslie Leyland Fields. From Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers: Finding Freedom from Hate and Hurt (Thomas Nelson, Jan. 2014) I’m walking with my arm on my father’s arm, though it makes me nervous to touch him. I shuffle with him down the hall of the nursing home where he lives. I have flown more than 4000 miles to be here with... Read more
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