What do Homeschooling Moms Do All Day?

Last updated on: November 12, 2013 at 6:23 pm By Scot McKnight

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The Boring Word in Theology

Last updated on: November 13, 2013 at 7:11 am By Scot McKnight

That word is “prolegomena” and it bores readers to begin a book with pages and pages of prolegomena. I know a 3 volume German theology on a topic, and the whole first volume is prolegomena. But everyone writing a theology, including Mike Bird, Evangelical Theology, begins with prolegomena. But let’s give the guy a hearing. What is theology? Study of God, not just study of the history of the discussion of the study about God or what the Bible says about... Read more

Two Strong Book Recommendations

Last updated on: November 13, 2013 at 8:33 am By Scot McKnight

So many books cross my desk that it’s not even remotely possible to blog about them nor is it fair, most of the time, to provide a kind of “Books Received” list at the end of each week or month. Every book that crosses my desk … I give a good look to see if it fits the blog and fits what I’m reading and sometimes books can’t be blogged through or they are about topics that aren’t of as... Read more

Creative

Last updated on: November 9, 2013 at 10:54 am By Scot McKnight

This is cool. Julio Garcia, an artist, architect and designer famous for his mixed media prints built for himself a home and studio from shipping containers in Savannah, Georgia. In creating his home, he drew inspiration from his art in trying to create a house that joins disparate elements into a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. The industrial recycled shipping containers he used to build his home are juxtaposed against the lush natural environments of... Read more

How Free Am I? (RJS)

Last updated on: November 12, 2013 at 5:31 am By RJS

I am in the middle of a sporadic series of posts based on two recent books by Malcolm Jeeves Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience and Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature with Warren S. Brown. Perhaps the most significant scientific challenge to Christian faith comes not from the age of the universe or the evolution of species, but rather from the findings of psychology and neuroscience. What is... Read more

From the Very Beginning: NT Wright

Last updated on: November 2, 2013 at 7:32 pm By Scot McKnight

The issue for historians of earliest Christianity is how this stuff all came about: How did Jesus of Nazareth come to be explained or confessed as he was? How did that christology develop? NT Wright, in Paul and the Faithfulness of God, proposes a breathtaking scheme that high christology, seeing Jesus as part of divine identity, was there from the very beginning: We must note carefully how this argument actually works. I am not saying that there was a pre-Christian... Read more

White Jobs

Last updated on: November 7, 2013 at 8:06 am By Scot McKnight

Good graph of jobs and race: Read more

Commentary Introductions

Last updated on: November 10, 2013 at 6:58 am By Scot McKnight

What about that Introduction to a commentary on the New Testament? Do you read it? When? How? The premise of the Story of God Bible Commentary is that these commentaries are for the parish pastor, for the Sunday School teacher, for the Bible college and seminary student, but most especially for the preacher. The central feature of this series, and our Sermon on the Mount and Lynn Cohick’s Philippians are now available, is that we seek to explain each passage in the... Read more

Barak (and women leaders)

Last updated on: November 9, 2013 at 3:32 pm By Scot McKnight

From David Lamb: Yes, Barak. I spelled it right. You’re thinking of Barack. I want to talk about the other one, the famous one, the one in the Bible (no “c”). Barak was Israel’s military leader during the period whenDeborah was judge over Israel in the fourth chapter of the book of Judges. In my class on Monday, we were discussing Judges 4 when one of the students said that Deborah shouldn’t have been the leader because she was a woman. Men like Barak should have been... Read more

Writing’s Mysteries

Last updated on: November 9, 2013 at 11:33 am By Scot McKnight

I recently read a fascinating book about the rituals and routines of some of the Western world’s most creative people, including Hemingway, Tolstoy, Faulkner, Ben Franklin, Ann Beattie, Joyce Carol Oates, H.L. Mencken, Melville, Hawthorne… the list goes on. The book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, covers more than writers but my focus was the writers. The oddities in habits and rituals of the famous are notorious, from weird hours to gallons of coffee to addictions to drugs and alcohol, not... Read more