All this week, I’ll be posting about Rob Bell’s controversial new book, Love Wins. And this Sunday, April 10, I’ll be guest hosting Doug Pagitt Radio from 12-2pm CDT, talking with Keith DeRose, Michael Horton, and a special surprise guest! The entire two hours will be devoted to a discussion of the book, in advance of Rob’s appearance the following night at Wayzata Community Church. A couple weeks ago, I mused about a theme that has come up in several... Read more
All this week, I’ll be posting about Rob Bell’s controversial new book, Love Wins. And this Sunday, April 10, I’ll be guest hosting Doug Pagitt Radio from 12-2pm CDT, talking with Keith DeRose, Michael Horton, and a special surprise guest! The entire two hours will be devoted to a discussion of the book, in advance of Rob’s appearance the following night at Wayzata Community Church. In response to yesterday’s post, Patrick Marshall commented, I’m getting a little tired of constantly... Read more
All this week, I’ll be posting about Rob Bell’s controversial new book, Love Wins. And this Sunday, April 10, I’ll be guest hosting Doug Pagitt Radio from 12-2pm CDT, talking with Keith DeRose, Michael Horton, and a special surprise guest! The entire two hours will be devoted to a discussion of the book, in advance of Rob’s appearance the following night at Wayzata Community Church. Last Friday, I already complained about the font of the book. Paul commented that it’s... Read more
Some of us have noticed a typo in the last line of The Book. It says, “loves wins.” Any author or editor knows this feeling — my book, The New Christians, ended up with a dozen dingbats and typos, even after the most thorough editing and proofreading process I’d ever seen. I imagine (I hope), that Rob is having a good chuckle about this typo. Stuff like this usually serves to keep us authors humble. What’s kind of cool, I... Read more
I’ve now read the book, thanks to Tripp Fuller, who gave me his copy (Tripp listened to the Audiobook version at 3X speed). Next week, I’ll have a series of posts on the book, with both my affirmations and my lingering questions. And that’s in advance of my turn at guest hosting Doug Pagitt Radio on Sunday, April 10, 12-2pm CDT. I’m committing the entire two hours to a discussion of Rob’s book and of Christian Universalism. I’ve already booked... Read more
It’s my birthday, so you’ll have to do without my scintillating observational analysis of all things for one day. But if you just need a fix, you can listen to my interview on The Drew Marshall Show in which I blatantly mock Peter Rollins’s atheism. Read more
I spent a few days this week at my alma mater, Fuller Theological Seminary, promoting a Doctor of Ministry cohort that I’m leading/teaching over the next three years. Of course, the visit was full of nostalgia for me, including trips to some of my favorite restaurants, and drive-bys of my old residence (the Bresee House) and my employer (Pasadena Covenant Church). I visited Knox Presbyterian to see my Fuller housemate, Matt Colwell, preach, and I had coffee with another classmate... Read more
I’m going to livestream our morning panel discussion and my talk about the DMin cohort I’m teaching at Fuller Seminary. You can watch it here. The panel discussion will begin around 10am PDT, and I will be speaking at 11am PDT. I’m also giving a public talk tonight at 7pm PDT — I hope to stream that as well. UPDATE: Here’s the talk I gave at Fuller Seminary, describing the D.Min. cohort that I’m leading over the next three years. ... Read more
Today, a group in Sweden is releasing a translation of the Didache that’s in the spirit of my book and translation: it’s written in the day-to-day language that makes this fantastic resource available to Christians today: Under Didaché 2010 hittar du vår översättning uppdelad i separata kapitel. Vid varje kapitel kan du kommentera texten, översättningen, ställa en fråga eller komma med en fundering, gör gärna detta. Men håll det kort och trevligt. via Didaché, De tolv apostlarnas träning » Livets... Read more
I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve watched the videos and I’ve read reviews, and I read a post this week by Greg Boyd which attempted to show the logical inconsistencies of moral determinism (pardon the lack of links – I’m posting this via the WordPress for iOS app). Greg’s post is entirely theological in its reasoning. He does not seem to take into account sociological or anthropological rationale. And neither does Rob Bell when, in interviews, he repeatedly... Read more
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