Matt Wiebe’s blog about faith and life.
A couple of must-reads for those interested in the public implications of faith:
Christ and Culture and Church and Creation - James K.A. Smith reviews D.A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited, and finds it lacking. A gem of a quote:
One gets the sense that Carson’s eternity lacks cultural institutions —an eternity without commerce or politics, art, or […]
In keeping with some of the Yoder I quoted in the previous post, I’d like to propose that discipleship can be distilled down to a twofold task. (Beware of reductionists!)
The first portion is being the kind of called-out community who embody the kingdom of God, upsetting the status quo, serving the poor and oppressed, running afoul […]
Baker Academic’s The Church and Postmodern Culture series will have a new entry in August by Carl Raschke called GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn. The series’ blog has a new post by Raschke to whet our appetities. Here’s a quote that shows that Raschke is doing some interesting thinking about globalization:
In a day-to-day […]
Jesus the teacher of timeless moral truths.
Jesus the wild eyed apocalyptic prophet.
Jesus the political revolutionary.
Jesus the supporter of imperialism.
Jesus the supplier of my needs.
Jesus the Jew.
Jesus the blonde-haired blue-eyed Christian.
Jesus the anti-religious.
I ended my last post boldly by stating “I will be conformed to Christ.” But whose Christ to conform to? The above is simply a smattering of pictures of Jesus that one […]
