I posted on academic blogging recently, and the conversation enlarged at a post on Scot McKnight’s blog. This discussion then spilled into a discussion in my history class today, which had some good thoughts raised. Here’s some thoughts that I’d like to collect from those sources and from my own thoughts as to the current […]
Archive for January, 2007
Series Index:
More on “The Last Word”
“The Last Word” and “Literal” Interpretation
Interpretive Methods in “The Last Word”
The Bible as Drama in “The Last Word”
Here’s an experiment: can I blog through a book that I’m reading while in the midst of a term that will be incredibly busy? I hope so.
I bought N.T. Wright’s The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a […]
I had a great conversation with one of my professors after class today. (Of course, I have to say that because he might be reading this!) We talked about topics far and wide pertaining to the life of the Christian who wants to be a faithful intellectual.
As exciting a topic as that is, it’s not what […]
I promised some photos of our new apartment here in St. Stephen a while back. We moved right down the hall into a much nicer (and more spacious) apartment than our last one. The living room is almost twice as big and has new hardwood laminate floors and new paint on the walls too. We’re […]
Scot McKnight has written an article for Christianity Today called Five Streams of the Emerging Church. I read a lot about the EC, but I don’t write much because I don’t have much to say (yet). But for anyone who’s heard murmurings about “emerging,” “emergent,” or this Brian McLaren guy, this article is basically a must-read.
One […]
Jaclyn and I had a great chat yesterday about how our culture avoids suffering. One of the reasons that we have so much difficulty understanding the Gospel in our culture is that our comfort-driven society teaches us that suffering is something to be cured, not endured.
Examples abound: have a headache? Take a Tylenol (or Advil, or […]
