Know Thy Givers

Last updated on: November 16, 2013 at 11:48 am By Scot McKnight

George Will: WASHINGTON — Residents of Austin, Texas, home of the state’s government and flagship university, have very refined social consciences, if they do say so themselves, and they do say so, speaking via bumper stickers. Don R. Willett, a justice of the state Supreme Court, has commuted behind bumpers proclaiming “Better a Bleeding Heart Than None at All,” “Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty,” “The Moral High Ground Is Built on Compassion,” “Arms Are For Hugging,” “Will... Read more

The Power of Ideas (RJS)

Last updated on: December 3, 2013 at 5:25 am By RJS

The nature of human beings, what it means to be human, extends beyond mere material physicality. There are two profound ways in which this is true. (1) We develop as individuals, but we do so in communities. We are human corporately, not simply as individuals. A bottom up approach just doesn’t work. Humans are social creatures and the field of social neuroscience is a fast growing field. The human brain is shaped by genetics, powered by physics and chemistry, but... Read more

NT Wright, Empire Criticism, and a Brief Response

Last updated on: December 1, 2013 at 6:34 am By Scot McKnight

Empire and the Echo Chamber IBR Short Paper 22 Oct 2013 Baltimore Joe Modica and I are co-editors of Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not, a book that evaluates how current New Testament scholars utilize “empire criticism” to discover the anti-imperial message in the gospel of Jesus and the apostles. In other words, that when Jesus or the apostles say “Jesus is Lord” they explicitly are opposing and subverting the rule of Caesar. Joe and I asked a bundle of scholars... Read more

Very Serious Cosmetics

Last updated on: November 29, 2013 at 4:04 pm By Scot McKnight

Wow. Read more

Thanksgiving at St Matt’s: Love this

Last updated on: November 29, 2013 at 11:42 am By Scot McKnight

Our friends, Rob and Linda Merola, are at St Matthew’s in Sterling VA — and they opened the church for Thanksgiving for all. I talked to a woman who otherwise would’ve spent Thanksgiving alone. She was from England and had no family in the states. She was so grateful for that her neighbors from St. Matt’s had cared enough to invite her. I heard several stories like this, and was touched by every one. I love the words of the... Read more

Know Thyself (in a Myers Briggs sort of way)

Last updated on: November 9, 2013 at 3:47 pm By Scot McKnight

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Who is an Evangelical? Or, Who Decides?

Last updated on: December 3, 2013 at 8:02 pm By Scot McKnight

A standard story is that the fundamentalists couldn’t handle their own questions so it was the neo-evangelicals who found a better way. The leading lights of neo-evangelicalism were Billy Graham, Carl Henry and Harold John Ockenga. In neo-evangelicalism American evangelicalism found a new kind of unity. That, in fact, is one story but Molly Worthen (University of North Carolina), in what may well prove to be one of the most important books on evangelicalism in a decade or two, Apostles of... Read more

Salt and Light

Last updated on: December 1, 2013 at 6:23 am By Scot McKnight

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it 100x: Christians are to be salt and light in this world. What that means is that we are to be marked by social justice or social activism or an influential presence in society. John R.W. Stott over and over used “salt and light” for the complement to evangelism, with “light” means evangelism and “salt” means social activism. This is at the least the “history of influence” of this set of images in... Read more

Christmas Shopping: An Infographic

Last updated on: November 29, 2013 at 7:24 am By Scot McKnight

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So True

Last updated on: November 25, 2013 at 4:12 pm By Scot McKnight

From Allan Bevere: On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Last Thursday, the fiftieth anniversary of this terrible event, was remembered all over the U.S. with ceremonies and documentaries on the president’s life and death. It is certainly understandable why such importance has been placed on Kennedy’s death– the assassination of the leader of the free world, a young and vibrant man (at least seemingly vibrant in appearance), and his young family captured the attention of... Read more