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Rob Bell gets this right! I’ve preached about the new creation connections to John 20. It seems we both read NT Wright 😉 Read more
Rob Bell gets this right! I’ve preached about the new creation connections to John 20. It seems we both read NT Wright 😉 Read more
The following is quoted from an article by Greg Stier: 1. I let my nerves drive me to study harder. There’s a great line in the movie Unforgiven when a one-armed deputy is asked why he always loads two guns. His answer was classic, “I don’t want to die for a lack of shooting back.” In the same way I don’t want to choke due to the lack of preparing. I allow my nerves to get me back to the... Read more
THOUGHTS? A timeline of US involvement in Iran from St. Peace Blog: 1953 – Under orders from President Eisenhower, the CIA organized a military coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Britain, unhappy that Iran nationalized its oil industry, came up with the idea for the coup and pressed the United States to mount a joint operation to remove Mossadeqh.For years, the U.S. denied its involvement in the 1953 coup, but in March 2000, then Secretary of... Read more
From Common Prayer: Dom Helder Camara of Recife (1909 – 1999) Born February 7, 1909, in Fortazela, Brazil, Dom Helder Camara became a bishop of the Catholic Church and one of the twentieth century’s great apostles of nonviolence. After joining a conservative political movement as a young priest, Camara experienced a conversion while ministering among the poor in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. “When I fed the poor they called me a saint,” Camara said. “When I asked why they were... Read more
Today I continue a long term series called “Evangelical Culture Myths.” I invite you to submit various sorts of cultural myths that we evangelicals tell. I’d love to cover some myths that you are interested in: either theological or practical in nature. Send them to me via email, FB, or Twitter (to tweet ideas, use this #EvangelicalMyths and “@kurtwillems”)! —————————————— Masculine Christianity.* In the new reformed wing of evangelicalism, masculinity is a high value. I wonder what that really means?... Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM THE HUMANE SOCIETY Christian Leaders Speak Out Against Cockfighting Cruelty The Humane Society of the United States commends Dr. Oran Smith and Dr. Richard Land for ground-breaking new video The Palmetto Family Council, based in Columbia, S.C., received praise from The Humane Society of the United States for the release of a strong video criticizing cockfighting. The blood sport is widespread in South Carolina because of the weakness of the state’s anti-cockfighting law and consists of... Read more
Darrell Bock talks about the relationship between Luke and Acts. Thoughts? Read more
If you haven’t read my review of Pete Enns’ The Evolution of Adam, you might check that out first and then come back here. In this video, N.T. Wright states the same thing that Pete Enns argues: Israel’s being taken away in Exile is a recapitulation of Adam being cast out of the Garden. For a fuller treatment of this, see this Biologos article. I would venture to say that N.T. Wright would lean a bit more toward the text... Read more
*The following is part of the Evolution of Adam Blog Tour. About four years ago, a glaring issue terrified me. At this point in my spiritual journey, I had dealt with many theological assumptions bequeathed from popular Evangelicalism. The grand shift of recognizing God’s love for the cosmos and God’s intention to join heaven and earth in renewed creation started a chain reaction. Several significant changes can be traced back to this fresh realization in college. With all of the... Read more
*The following originally appeared in Christian Leader and was used with the permission of the author. Buying the 2009 Mumford and Sons album Sigh No More was an incredibly foolish decision. It was an impulsebuy in the intoxicating halls of Amoeba Music, a purchase based on small snippets of these British folks rock songs I had just vaguely heard. It was a fantastic decision. My experience of romantic love has not been altogether perfect. It seems this is a common... Read more
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