Theoblogy
This week’s find on Amazon: A massive collection of Bach, lowered to $.99 in honor of his birthday last week. It includes some great Lenten listening, like the B Minor Mass. Get it before they raise the price. Read more
This week’s find on Amazon: A massive collection of Bach, lowered to $.99 in honor of his birthday last week. It includes some great Lenten listening, like the B Minor Mass. Get it before they raise the price. Read more
Here’s a great online site for making the Stations of the Cross online. Read the intro then click through the numbers in the banner. The Way of the Cross and Resurrection This is Jesus’ way. You are invited – that it may become your own way. If you stop and look, you may find you have been on this pilgrimage as well. Have you ever been condemned by another? Have you ever fallen? Has your life had difficulties? When you... Read more
Loyal readers will know that my friend, Rachel Held Evans, has been pressured by her Christian publisher, Thomas Nelson, to remove the word “vagina” from her forthcoming book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master. The publisher, it seems, fears that Christian bookstore will not stock the book if it contains that word. The problems with this are too numerous to enumerate. Among them:... Read more
There was an interesting column in Martin Marty‘s Sightings this week, linking the unlikely pair of Lisa Miller and Jim Henderson, both of whom are predicting that women are on the verge of leaving Evangelico-Republicanism en masse. Felice Lifshitz writes, Christianity has consistently been open to pro-feminist movements, but this has resulted neither in a fundamental egalitarian transformation of Christian institutions, nor in a mass exodus of disaffected women. The current wave of “resignations” fits squarely into a 2000-year-old tradition of tension over gender and... Read more
I’m dramatically expanding my garden this year, in one of those DIY projects that’s probably way too big for me. The plans are below. I’m going to dig up a total area of 18′ by 28′ and put three raised beds therein. Around the edges, I plan pumpkins, melons, and other gourds, sunflowers, and herbs. In the plan, up is West. So, I’m asking those of you who garden, what am I missing? Got any tips on how I should... Read more
Believe it or not, I take no pleasure in the flailings and failings of Christian leaders who hold dissimilar views to me. I’ve had my own failings, including divorce and foreclosure. And these failings have humbled me. I’m regularly told by friends and acquaintances, especially those who’ve not seen me for a few years, that I now seem more gentle, more humane. I attribute much of that to the love I’ve experienced, most notably from Courtney, Doug, and my family. Mark Driscoll and I were... Read more
Every Wednesday during Lent, I’m going to explore an alternatives to the penal substitutionary understanding of the atonement, the dominant theory of the atonement in my part of the (theological and geographical) world. You can read all of the posts, and my past posts on this topic, here. I’ve got an ebook on the subject as well. Remember the climax of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis? Young and mischevious Edmund has eaten some Turkish Delight... Read more
This is the best post I’ve seen: If our brokenness disqualifies us from offering our goodness to the world, then what hope do any of us have of contributing anything at all? Jason Russell isn’t a tabloid celebrity that makes a living entertaining others or being celebrated for a skill or talent he possesses. He appears to be a social activist that has dedicated his life to something he believes in. Whether or not his motives, ideologies or practices are... Read more
My post is up in Jake Bouma’s Cancer and Theology series: Since I married a photojournalist, I’ve been subscribing to the newspaper. Someone comes to my house every morning (driving a Mercedes-Benz SUV, if you can believe it) and throws a newspaper on our doorstep. And I sit in my favorite chair with a cup of coffee and read the paper, cover-to-cover. I think I’m becoming my parents. And every day I read the obituaries. Yes, it’s official, I am... Read more
My new ebook, A Better Atonement: Beyond the Depraved Doctrine of Original Sin is now available on Amazon for $2.99. The 13,000-word book has three sections: A history of the doctrine of Original Sin, showing that we should now reject it; A defense of the historical, bodily crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus; A tour through the many theories of the atonement. While some of the material has appeared previously on this blog, a great deal is new — including my... Read more
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