https://soundcloud.com/user-212639123/ask-scot-part-1-kr-102 Want to ask me a question for the next podcast?  Record your question here >> http://www.seminary.edu/askscot/ In this episode I field questions submitted by Kingdom Roots listeners.  Recommended resources, Christian and Jewish relationships, and further insights on the New Perspective are the type of topics addressed in this episode. Suggest Resource: The Kingdom of God and the Teaching of Jesus by Mark Saucey – https://amzn.to/2Pdk9RU Read more

By Mike Glenn According to those people who stay up late at night and wonder about these things, our culture is suffering an epidemic of anxiety caused by FOMO, or, the Fear of Missing Out. According to this theory, we have become so connected and intertwined with the world around us through our digital gadgets and social media that we no longer can be separated from our devices – even to sleep – fearing we’ll miss someone’s tweet, or blog,... Read more

By Michelle Van Loon www.michellevanloon.com www.ThePerennialGen.com The newest wave of reaction to megachurches was sure to come in the wake of a string of moral failures of both charismatic leaders and the “yes man” approach of the elders/board members responsible for governing the organization. A number of pundits have noted that the megachurch built on a business model is a faulty structure not unlike a McMansion built on a foundation of sand. There is a renewed hue and cry to... Read more

Yet another new book for our consideration. Denis Alexander, molecular biologist, former chair of the Molecular Immunology Programme at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and emeritus director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, has recently published Is There Purpose in Biology? The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. This should be interesting… Purpose is one of those words that covers several different categories or concepts. Is life purposeful or purposeless? On one level there is, of... Read more

Is the Book of Job a parable? What is the message of Job? Does Job believe in life everlasting or prolongation of days  in one’s descendants? Matt Levering, in his new book called Dying and the Virtues. examines the Book of Job and intersects it with the longing for life everlasting because of love. If God loves us, then God can’t annihilate us. That’s a major theme for Levering for the Book of Job. Life everlasting and love. They are not... Read more

Rod Dreher, a voice adored by some conservatives and despised by some progressives, always speaks his mind with utterly clear prose. You don’t have to be a conservative to feel the blunt end of this bad-boy description: Looking back on it, it was not sexual abuse by priests that caused me to lose my Catholic faith. It was the chronic lying and deceptive actions by bishops, and the inescapable conclusion that they could not be trusted to reform the Church.... Read more

Caitlin Flanagan at The Atlantic: Two years ago, I walked downstairs and saw one of my teenage sons watching a strange YouTube video on the television. “What is that?” I asked. He turned to me earnestly and explained, “It’s a psychology professor at the University of Toronto talking about Canadian law.” [Jordan Peterson] “Huh?” I said, but he had already turned back to the screen. I figured he had finally gotten to the end of the internet, and this was... Read more

I will begin a new series on miracles, and we will focus our conversation by reading Luke Timothy Johnson’s new book — one that will not satisfy everyone but it will provoke conversations aplenty. It’s called Miracles: God’s Presence and Power in Creation. It’s in the acclaimed series from WJKP called Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church. What do you think are the most important questions about the Bible’s records of miracles?  Johnson, who paved a resurrection... Read more