Last week I wrote about heresy in a way that upset many of you. First of all, I used a baseball manager (Ozzie Guillen) as an example of a heretic—though not a religious one—and then said clearly that we should not be on a witch hunt for heretics, which prompted some of you to tellContinue reading “Bad Religion: A Prelude”
Category Archives: IM Book Review
IM Book Review: How God Became King
How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels by N.T. Wright, HarperOne/2012 • • • N.T. Wright continues his work of laying a foundation for what I believe will become the standard evangelical theology of the next generation. Yes, I think his work is that important. A key part of that work isContinue reading “IM Book Review: How God Became King”
“A Developing Understanding of the Divine Will and Nature”?
The Bible, through a Scientist’s Eyes
The Bible, through a Scientist’s Eyes, part one Testing Scripture: A Scientist Explores the Bible by John Polkinghorne • • • Today, we begin walking through a new book by John Polkinghorne on the Bible. I believe this will give us a unique vantage point from which to consider the Scriptures? Why? — because PolkinghorneContinue reading “The Bible, through a Scientist’s Eyes”
IM Book Review: Simply Jesus
IM Book Review Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters by N.T. Wright, HarperOne • • • “It is time, I believe, to recognize not only who Jesus was in his own day, despite his contemporaries’ failure to recognize him, but also who he is, andContinue reading “IM Book Review: Simply Jesus”
IM Book Review: The Great Emergence
If I were a certain kind of preacher or Bible teacher, I might try to make some “spiritual law” out of this. As it is, I will take it as a interpretive way of looking at history that may help people of faith who are concerned about the Church discern some instructive patterns and enableContinue reading “IM Book Review: The Great Emergence”
Christianity In America: A Crisis, or, The Evangelical Emperor Has No Clothes (as found on your library shelf)
A few weeks—ok, months—ago I started writing on what I see in general when I look at today’s evangelical church in America. I called the series The Naked Emperor. I have been kept from revisiting this by work and illness and … oh, lots of things. I do plan to finish what I started, butContinue reading “Christianity In America: A Crisis, or, The Evangelical Emperor Has No Clothes (as found on your library shelf)”
Dissident Discipleship: A Book Overview
Recently I read the book Dissident Discipleship by David Augsburger. He wrote it in 2006, but I think his topic is evergreen: What makes someone a true disciple of Jesus? Augsburger tells it from an Anabaptist perspective. Once we give assent to Christ’s lordship, recognize the necessity for and effectiveness of his shed blood to atoneContinue reading “Dissident Discipleship: A Book Overview”
Good News is Just the Beginning
Over the past decade, a cottage industry has grown and and is now flourishing among American Christian leaders and teachers that has focused on defining the Gospel. Many factors account for this. We live in a decidedly non-doctrinaire age, and the “Gospel” discussion has formed in response to that. Through the influence of the churchContinue reading “Good News is Just the Beginning”
Prepositions Matter
“…the grammarian’s last daughter opened her bag. “Out came the prepositions: of, to, from, with, at, by, in, under, over, and so on. When she’d put them into the bag, they had seemed like hooks or angles. Now, departing in orderly rows, they reminded her of ants. Granted, they were large ants, each one theContinue reading “Prepositions Matter”
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