High Stakes Discipleship Luke tells us that “Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people. (Luke 2:52 NLT). An elemental observation of Jesus’ formation notes that Jesus progressed intellectually (wisdom), physically (stature), spiritually (with God) and socially (with people). John Noland comments, “Luke speaks…out of the conviction that the human maturing process even in perfect form involves not only growth in size but also development in wisdom and in the capacity to... Read more
Greg Henson: If the graph doesn’t pop up quickly, hit refresh. What stands out here? What will seminary need to do and be in light of these numbers? As a group, incoming students are saddled with over $85,000,000 in educational debt BEFORE they enroll. Since 2001, the percentage of incoming students that enter seminary with more than $25,000 in educational debt has increased by 143%. The majority of incoming students will find seminary to be nothing like (or at least... Read more
Elaine Glaser probes: Instructions to appreciate the wonder of science are everywhere. There’s the Wonder season organised jointly by the Barbican and the Wellcome Trust which starts tomorrow; the Science Museum’s World Wonders Trail; the parliamentary select committee report on introducing wonder to the national curriculum; and the 2011 TED conference titledThe Rediscovery of Wonder. But am I alone in finding this cheerleading problematic? It’s ironic that the public engagement with the science crowd is so pro-wonder, because they’re so anti-religion. “All the great religions have... Read more
From Rabbi Joshua: Question: What do women do by way of leadership in messianic Judaism today? During the Second Temple period in ancient Israel, women were able to actively participate within the larger society, both socially and religiously. Women served as leaders of synagogues, participated in ritual services, learned and taught Jewish law, were counted in a minyan, and from archaeological evidence, do not seem to have been physically separated from men during prayer. There was active participation of women in all facets of... Read more
Several years ago Denis Noble published an interesting little book The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes. The reductionist approach to biology described on a popular level by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene considers the purpose of any organism simply to provide a casing ensuring the survival of the genes. Information flows from the gene which is the ultimate conductor controlling the whole. Biology however, is far more complex than the reductionist emphasis on the selfish gene... Read more
No one disputes that Jesus’ most important sermon, or at least the most famous and influential of his sermons, is the Sermon the Mount (or Plain) found in Matthew 5–7 and Luke 6:17-49. There are two basic options for this Great Sermon: it’s for us or it’s not. We can nuance this: it’s for us who are Jewish, but not for Gentile believers. Christian history defies narrowing the Sermon to Jewish believers only, but the odd thing is that many Christians... Read more
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