The Faith and Practice of the Earliest Christians: a DVD Study on the Didache with Tony Jones is the video companion to my book, The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing and Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community. It’s composed of six sessions and particularly aimed at small group and adult Sunday school use. I’m running a little contest today, giving out one copy each here, on Twitter, and on Facebook. The trivia question for the blog is... Read more
The opening of my review here. Click over to Scot’s site below to read the rest. Imagine, if you will, that you’re writing your dissertation on left-handed hitters in baseball. The subjects of your study have widely varied approaches to hitting, but they are all among the best in the majors: Joe Mauer, Ichiro Suzuki, David Ortiz, and Josh Hamilton. But here’s the thing: your entire PhD dissertation is based on what they’ve written and said about their own swings.... Read more
…since I left Beliefnet as my blogging home and struck out on my own. I sure appreciate those of you who stuck with me through the transition. My traffic continues to grow, so I guess some of you out there have interest in what I have to say. So, thanks. Here are the top five trafficked posts over the past year: 5. Are You a Hipster Christian? 4. Young Jesus in the Temple 3. Lonnie Frisbee and the Non-Demise of... Read more
I arrived home from sparkhouse yesterday to find a happy package on my doorstep. The DVD I shot with Paraclete Press earlier in the year had arrived: The Faith and Practice of the Earliest Christians: a DVD Study on the Didache with Tony Jones. It turned out great, IMHO. It’s a six-session video curriculum aimed at adult learning communities and Sunday schools, but I imagine it will also be used by high school and college ministries. It’s a companion to... Read more
This week on Wordle Wednesday, my book, Divine Intervention: Encountering God through the Ancient Practice of Lectio Divina (2007) (originally published as Read.Think.Pray.Live). Read more
The coverage of Randy Moss’s exit from the Minnesota Vikings after just four games overshadowed all news here in the Twin Cities last night, getting top coverage over today’s election and the San Francisco Giants historic World Series victory. Minnesota fans are up-in-arms, with 80% of the 13K voters on a StarTribune poll saying that head coach Brad Childress should be fired immediately for waiving Moss. Moss’s sin seems to have been that he just wasn’t that into us —... Read more
Why not join me for three years of exploration and learning about Christian spirituality, and end up with a D.Min from Fuller? The Doctor of Ministry cohort in Christian Spirituality with Tony Jones will feature a variety of different learning environments and structures that will allow the students to engage spirituality conceptually and practically. Each year will feature different co-teachers and will alternate locations for two-week periods. The proposed format is as follows: via Fuller Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry... Read more
That’s the question that Mark Heim, professor of theology at Andover Newton Theological School asked his class this morning as I sat in. Mark thinks not, and he explicates that idea in his excellent book, Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross. Therein, Mark explores Rene Girard‘s brilliant theories of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism in common in human culture. That reminded me of a great podcast interview at Entitled Opinions in which Robert Harrison of Stanford interviews... Read more
Next up in the Wordle Wednesday series is my third book, The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life (2004): Read more
An important question from Craig Goodwin: It’s also possible that Christian perspectives will simply be conflated with powerful secular voices. For example, the mission to “feed the world” tends to be the ethical catch-all for big agricultural interests like profit-seeking Monsanto. In response to questions of their practices they generally say, “Get off our back, can’t you see we’re trying to feed the world here.” The danger is that the Biblical command to “feed the hungry” will be equated with... Read more
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