After putting it down for a while, I’ve picked up Chris K. Huebner’s excellent and challenging book A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, And Identity again. Here is a passage that translates a commitment to peace into a rejection of notions of witness that strive to guarantee conversion:
To say that witness is gift is […]
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As my last post indicated, I’m currently reading James K.A. Smith’s Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. He’s helping me to understand the phenomenon of postmodern philosophy much better than any other tutor I’ve had previously. He is actually familiar with each author’s writings (particularly Derrida) and is therefore able […]
I’m reading Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age by J. Richard Middleton & Brian Walsh right now and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a ten year old book, but I’m finding that it speaks well into much of the current fascination with all things “postmodern.” I’m only […]
Jaclyn and I are currently reading through Alan Hirsch’s “The Forgotten Ways” together. What I love about this book is that it lays out what many have been saying and feeling for some time now: the church in the West must relate to the culture it finds itself in as cross-cultural ministries; no different than […]
Well, here’s a theological turn. It’s surprising how little theology I post compared to how much I’m knocking about theological ideas in me noggin. I’m currently reading Craig A. Evans’ article “The Beginning of the Good News in the Gospel of Mark” (in Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament) for a paper I’m […]
This is truly the best news that the world could hope for. I wish I lived more like I believed it.
After the Sabbath, as the first light of the new week dawned, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to keep vigil at the tomb. Suddenly the earth reeled and rocked under their feet as God’s […]
