Jesus Creed
From the Pew Research Center: Read more
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I’ve often told students and audiences that, if you read the Gospels carefully, you learn not to ask Jesus questions. When someone asks him a question they more often than not get deconstructed or Jesus probes behind the question to an even deeper personal question. So the scribe asks Jesus, “What is the greatest commandment of them all?” Jesus answers with two answers — love God and love your neighbor — and the scribe is challenged to go deeper than... Read more
I am in Atlanta at the Annual Meeting of SBL. I will be giving a paper on the theology of the KJV New Testament translation, and the picture to the right is the title page (of the KJV, not my paper!). The KJV will be 400 years old in 2011. Why I love church … by Fr Rob. Speaking of church, are you interested in kids ministries? (HT: HZ) More speaking of church, check this out with Dan Kimball and... Read more
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What do you think of the hullabaloo about airport pat-downs and full-body scans? By Elizabeth Fuller, Correspondent posted November 17, 2010 at 4:03 pm EST As the debate about the Transportation Security Administration’s screening procedures pings across the Internet, a growing chorus of critics is asserting that electronic imaging scans and “enhanced pat-downs” both represent an unconstitutional violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches. “Enough is enough. I should not have to submit to a digital strip search or being... Read more
From Thomas Jay Oord’s blog… What do you think of his five major points? Would you add others, subtract some of these? Which books do you think are most important for those who want to think about this more intelligently? Evangelicals Accept Evolution I chose my blog title to acknowledge that a growing number of Evangelicals accept evolution as compatible with Christianity. I also chose my title to argue that Evangelicals should accept evolution as compatible with faith. I spent a... Read more
Robert Benne is the Director of the Roanoke College Center for Religion and Society who explores for a living the relationship of religion and politics. He’s a Lutheran and puts him in disagreement with the Anabaptists in his new book: Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics. Our last post looked at his analysis of the liberal separatists and this post looks at the religious/Christian separatists. The gospel is transcendent in a number of ways. It transcends... Read more
Over the course of the next few days, I will be posting some graphs from the Pew Center Research report: Read more
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This sermon is from Jason Micheli in Arlington VA, at Aldersgate UMC. Jason here presses against superficial understandings of God by pushing against Baylor’s Survey and then reminding us that we Christians have a powerful image of God that almost never makes it into surveys. Whenever I read sermons I pause to think of the sermon’s function by this sermon’s preacher in that sermon’s social context and in that sermon’s ecclesial context. And I always trust the pastor’s judgment for... Read more
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