Missional vs. Attractional, Pro-Life Style

Last updated on: June 1, 2013 at 2:43 pm By Scot McKnight

From CP: WASHINGTON – The newest breakthrough in the pro-life movement isn’t a bill in Congress or a march on Washington: it’s a mobile ultrasound vehicle. Equipped with a team of Christian medical professionals, 22 mobile vehicles already visited 19 cities in the United States. Michael Homula, executive director of ICU Mobile, shared the story on Wednesday at a Family Research Council event. ICU stands for Image Clear Ultrasound, but also sounds like “I See You,” as in “I see you in... Read more

Summer Vacation: Too Long? Time for a change?

Last updated on: June 1, 2013 at 7:27 pm By Scot McKnight

From Daniel Luzer: Next week begins, in many cases, the three-month period that is summer vacation from school. For those of us long outside of education, and without children of our own, it may be a little hard to recall the sheer joy that is summer vacation. Three whole months outside of the classroom. Your mother surely got annoyed with your sunburns, the fact that you preferred to spend the day playing video games, and your demands to be taken... Read more

The Map of the Soul

Last updated on: June 5, 2013 at 11:53 pm By Scot McKnight

This is John Frye’s weekly column, From the Shepherd’s Nook. Preaching: The Map of the Soul In Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity, Eugene H. Peterson tells Herman Melville’s story of Dr. Cuticle. On a large sailing ship at sea, Dr. Cuticle is the ship’s only surgeon. Disappointed that the most medical attention the sailors need is care for their blisters, Dr. Cuticle is excited when a sailor is brought to him with severe abdominal pain. Diagnosing a... Read more

Making Sense of it All

Last updated on: June 5, 2013 at 11:47 pm By Scot McKnight

We have bucket loads of words for thinking, and thinking is just one of those words, so I could have chosen other words. Like pondering. We could add to a list of thinking words another list of feeling words and they influence thinking and thinking the feeling. “What we are trying to do, in a phrase,” with those those words, “is make sense of it all.” So says Daniel Taylor in his lovely The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner... Read more

Don’t Let Me Down, with Christian Diego Mello

Last updated on: June 4, 2013 at 8:04 am By Scot McKnight

Invitation to a Lifetime Opportunity

Last updated on: June 4, 2013 at 9:45 pm By Scot McKnight

I will be directing a new and innovative Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at Northern Seminary. Here’s our announcement: Northern is excited to announce a new Doctor of Ministry in New Testament Context. “The DMin in New Testament Context will give pastors the opportunity of a lifetime. In my speaking and conversations with pastors, preachers, and lay folks, one of the most illuminating features we have to bring to the church is clarifying the historical context of Jesus and the... Read more

The Primacy of Scripture, Adam, and the Fall (RJS)

Last updated on: June 6, 2013 at 11:05 am By RJS

The questions surrounding Adam and Eve and the Fall in Genesis 2-3 and concerning the role of inspiration in the formation of the Bible are issues that won’t go away any time soon. They are not the only issues at play in discussions of science, Christian faith, and the intellectual coherence, but they are major ones. I’ve been posting on these issues off and on since I first starting writing on Scot’s blog (some five plus years and 500 posts... Read more

Finding Faith, Losing Faith

Last updated on: June 5, 2013 at 8:25 pm By Scot McKnight

Some of you know of my interest in patterns in stories of conversion, about which I have written in Turning to Jesus and Finding Faith, Losing Faith (with Hauna Ondrey). One of the elements of conversion is that each conversion entails an apostasy, that is, to come to one thing one leaves another thing. This led to a chapter in Finding Faith, Losing Faith that was an “Anatomy of Apostasy.” We examined the reasons people give for walking from the faith. Recently my... Read more

Trigg’s Theory for Doing Good

Last updated on: June 2, 2013 at 5:02 pm By Scot McKnight

From WaPo: Jason Trigg went into finance because he is after money — as much as he can earn. The 25-year-old certainly had other career options. An MIT computer science graduate, he could be writing software for the next tech giant. Or he might have gone into academia in computing or applied math or even biology. He could literally be working to cure cancer. Instead, he goes to work each morning for a high-frequency trading firm. It’s a hedge fund... Read more

Dallas Willard’s Grand-daughter

Last updated on: June 5, 2013 at 8:42 am By Scot McKnight

From Larissa Wheatley, Dallas Willard’s grand-daughter at the funeral … just a clip, so click on the link and read the whole thing at the High Calling: I always wanted that voice to teach me at USC. And I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately and how that isn’t going to happen. But I realized while I was thinking about it, that he had already been teaching me more than I could ever have learned in school. He taught... Read more