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Fringe view: The world of Jesus mythicism
Scholars disagree about how Jesus understood his life and mission. Countless labels have been applied to him. But everyone agrees that he existed, right?
SBC leader compares personhood movement to abolition
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – The Southern Baptist Convention’s top
ethics leader compared an upcoming vote on Mississippi’s proposed...
A community that faces fear
When I preach, I am absorbed in faces. I'm captured by the sustained opportunity preaching creates to gaze into the faces of those I am seeking to serve as a pastor. In worship, it seems more obvious that others are seeing me. In fact, I am truly seeing them. I see and absorb all kinds of things about people during these moments of proclamation. The most profound observation is also the most obvious: they are a gift.
I'd love to tell the story, but I don't know it
Once again, while at an ecumenical clergy gathering, I heard the call
for the Church to become missional, this time from a Presbyterian.
The Anointed, by Randall J. Stephens and Karl W. Giberson
In high school I was taught that the Earth is about 10,000 years old. But I also learned the basics of evolution from my evangelical teachers....
Gross inequity
Over 20 years, the CEO pay multiple went up 1,000 percent. Former bank CEO William J. McDonough calls this "grotesquely immoral."
Durable, disciplined liberty
It's hard to remember when
George Will was a serious political thinker and not a shill for the latest...
God refuses to be God without us
We asked God to say something definite and God,
getting personal, sent Jesus Christ. We were surprised.
Links? Links.
Here are some thing I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.
Disrupted, by Julie Anderson Love
After her bleak diagnosis, Julie Anderson Love learned that hope has nothing to do
with passivity. She was, she writes, "the patient from
hell."
The case against Wall Street: Why the protesters are angry
The protesters sleeping in the cold do not claim that 99 percent of Americans agree with them. Their point is that the top 1 percent plays by different rules.