Of course you do. So I’m asking you to help a brotha out. Since I’ve had a few different blogs over the years, this new URL suffers in search results. So, if you would be so kind, 1. Log in to your google account 2. Go to google.com 3. Search for ‘tony jones blog’ 4. Scroll down till you see www.patheos.com/blogs/tonyjones 5. Click the little arrow that promotes that result to the top of your page 6. Optional: leave a... Read more
Today, Amy Moffit and Ted Gossard tackle chapter three of my new book, The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing and Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community. (The blog tour skipped chapter two of the book, because that is the complete text of the Didache, which you can also find here.) Amy writes that at first, the Didache seemed to her like a cut-and-paste job from Matthew’s Gospel, in which the authors simply took the parts of Matthew... Read more
You may know that Doug and I started a company a couple years ago. It grew out of our own desire to assist in the marketing of our own books, and we think that we’ve learned enough along the way that we’ve got something to offer others, as well. One group that needs some marketing help these days is pastors and ministry leaders. So we’ve developed a one-day Social Media Boot Camp for Pastors and Ministry Leaders. We’re offering the... Read more
Today, my new book, The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing and Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community starts shipping (details for purchase are at the end of this post). And Paraclete Press has been kind enough to arrange a blog tour over the next ten days. I’ll be interacting with the posts by these bloggers as we go along. (more…) Read more
My latest book, The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing & Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community officially releases tomorrow (it should ship from Amazon tomorrow, but it may already be available at some retailers; starting tomorrow, Paraclete Press will be offering a special deal: Buy three or more and get 40% off). It’s a short, breezy read — on Amazon, David P. Robinson says that he read it in two hours, and he recommends it to youth... Read more
I hereby challenge uber-blogger and blindly loyal Chicago sports fan, Scot McKnight to a friendly wager. Tomorrow afternoon, the mighty Vikings play the once-mighty Bears in American football. The current line is ranges from 10 to 11 points. So I’ll give Scot 10.5 points. When If the Vikings win, Scot will send me a Chicago deep dish pizza. If the Bears win, I’ll send Scot some Peace Coffee. Read more
This is both a Thanksgiving pie post, and a test post using the iPhone WordPress app. Read more
…but this is what they’re getting for Christmas! Read more
My assignment for tomorrow is to make two pumpkin pies, one relatively spicey and one not-too-spicey. Tonight I make the crusts, and tomorrow the kids and I make the pies. If you’ve made pumpkin pie before, have you got any advice? Read more
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