Thursday, on our post about a news item on rearing children, we got this memorable comment from “Mickey,” a pediatrician: I am the father of 6 children that are aged 13-22.5 years. I am also a practicing pediatrician in the Midwest. My wife and I have home-educated our children all the way through their “formal education” years until they have reached college age. I guess I am about as conservative as you can get both from a scriptural and social... Read more
Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more
The issue of women’s experiences of churches matters to me, and I would urge folks to consider reading Sara Barton’s fine memoir, A Woman Called: Piecing Together the Ministry Puzzle. From Barna, part two: If spirituality were Olympic gymnastics, most Christian women would give their personal faith top scores. Three quarters of Christian women say they are mature in their faith (73%). The good feelings continue when it comes to ongoing spiritual growth, as more than one third (36%) of... Read more
The following response by Pete Enns to Hans Madueme was first posted on Pete’s blog at Patheos (see Pete’s post for some good discussion) and we are using it with permission for our Saturday Book Review slot. Confession: I know Hans, he is an M.D. and has been in my home for a chat, and I’m glad he finished his PhD at TEDS and is now teaching at Covenant. Readers of this blog will know that I stand with the... Read more
Thanks to Jennifer Hudson, helping kids get school supplies! Post of the week about posting comments on blogs, by Sarah Geis. Richard Beck, always thoughtful, on “your God is too big”: “Here’s what I think. I think too much focus on God’s awesomeness leaves us ill-equipped to see God’s smallness in the world. Perhaps we’d be better able to transition from worship to mission if we started focusing on God’s smallness rather than on God’s bigness. Isn’t it one of the purposes of worship... Read more
See this from AP? BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – A Los Angeles restaurant is offering a deal to customers who agree to look at their fellow diners instead of their phone screens. Eva Restaurant is giving a 5 percent discount to customers who will leave their cellphones with staff when they are seated. Owner Mark Gold told KPCC radio (http://bit.ly/Pn6Jx1 ) on Tuesday that the policy isn’t about other diners who might be annoyed by cellphone chatter or the glow... Read more
From Beth Teitell: What are you doing about this ongoing nagging problem? Kids have always fought household rivals for their parents’ attention, of course. But competing against a phone attached to a kitchen wall or a newspaper is nothing compared with going head-to-head with Facebook or Angry Birds. No one has calculated the number of iPhone (or tablet or laptop) orphans. But children who dream of talking to or playing with their parents without mom or dad stealing a glance... Read more
By Naunihal Singh: The media has treated the shootings in Oak Creek very differently from those that happened just two weeks earlier in Aurora. Only one network sent an anchor to report live from Oak Creek, and none of the networks gave the murders in Wisconsin the kind of extensive coverage that the Colorado shootings received. The print media also quickly lost interest, with the story slipping from the front page of the New York Times after Tuesday. If you get all your news... Read more
What Pastors Urgently Need First , a big “thank you” to Scot McKnight for inviting me to post a weekly reflection on pastoral ministry in this 21st century. You can read my first two posts on this topic at my blog “Jesus the Radical Pastor.” Second, a word about my purpose. I am writing very intentionally about the traditional view of pastoral ministry within the current milieu of many contentious views about the vocation of pastor. To get a feel... Read more
I have a friend who has chatted with me for years about what a person must believe in order to be saved. In his case the issue often comes down to whether one must believe Jesus is God, and he has contended that no text telling people what to do or believe in the NT ever says that, which at one level is of course true. No one asked Peter “What must I do to be saved?” to which Peter said,... Read more
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