Martin Bashir, of MSNBC, was on the Paul Edwards to be interviewed about his interview. (That’s a first for me.) Bashir and Edwards agreed that that they thought Rob at one point was not forthcoming. There were many good points brought about by Bashir, who is an articulate evangelical, but I want to hone in on one point. In this interview, they talked about a part of the interview where I think the problem was that Bashir actually asked a... Read more
Kris and I have been gone for Spring Break, and so there will be no Weekly Meanderings … our internet connection last week was just not quick enough to accomplish the task. But today I will have two posts, this one on Rob Bell reviews and then later today a very special book review. Notice how the reviews of Rob Bell’s book are all over the map — and that is why I have what I do. Stuff from different... Read more
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I’ve been saying at this blog for five years that evangelicalism is in the midst of sea changes, and may well crack up. When I first started commenting on the future of the emerging movement, I was asked about its future. At that time I said three things seem like they will happen: (1) some will retreat back into evangelicalism, (2) some will keep on in an evangelical context and work for changes, and (3) some will morph into the... Read more
Dante took theology about the afterlife and turned it into an epic adventure, modeling his story on Homer’s stories and on Virgil’s famous The Aeneid and in many ways taking them to the next millennia of history. In the East, instead of finding a Dante’s journey into the underworld and then back up to heaven, we find poets who told stories of Christ’s victory of Death and the Devil and Hell. The principle poets are Ephrem the Syrian and Romanos... Read more
Tim Keller’s newest book, King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus, examines big questions through the Gospel of Mark. “The Stain” — the best chp I’ve read in this book thus far. Questions: What does “unclean” mean? How do you teach the purity laws for today? Do they “symbolize”? What? Mark 7 tells us about disciples who were criticized for eating with their hands unwashed, and this gives Jesus an opportunity to excoriate the Pharisees... Read more
From a book I’m reading: To the question “Who do you say that I am?” we cannot give a merely theoretical or theological answer. What answers it, in the final analysis, is our life, our personal history, our manner of living the gospel. Peter’s affirmation, ‘You are the Christ,’ is fundamental. But what is demanded is that we make that affirmation the guiding thought of our life — accepting all the consequences, as dire as they may be. Only so... Read more
I recently received, compliments of the publisher, a copy of a new book by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions. This book has its origins in the avalanche of questions unleashed on Collins following the publication of his earlier book The Language of God. But this new book is not an encyclopedia of frequently asked questions – it is a readable book walking through many of the frequently asked questions... Read more
Miroslav Volf, Professor at Yale, on the dedication page of his new book — Allah: A Christian Response, says this: To my father, a Pentecostal minister who admired Muslims, and taught me as a boy that they worship the same God as we do. Volf’s quest is to build a theological basis for peaceful co-existence and peaceful cooperation among Muslims and Christians, and his quest is to contend that the God of the Christians and the God of the Muslims... Read more
Almighty God, in your providence you chose your servant Patrick to be the apostle of the Irish people, to bring those who were wandering in darkness and error to the true light and knowledge of you: Grant us so to walk in that light that we may come at last to the light of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
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