I have not felt like blogging recently. Here are some highlights in this week’s curriculum vitae:
Friday, April 25: I went to hear Willard Swartley at the Parish Resource Center. The topic was “Teaching and Preaching on War and Peace.” He was very good. Dr. Bob Webber provided a response. Some good exchange. I need to [...]
In the Gospel reading from yesterday (Luke 24) we encounter the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus. Dwelling in the passage last week as I prepared to preach, I continually came back to the perspective of the two followers Jesus meets on the road. I was struck by the fact that they had given themselves [...]
“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:11
“The Church, the House of the Lord, is built upon the foundations of the faith of the Apostles and prophets.” –St. Basil of Caesarea (379)
“Through the great shepherd of thy flock, Jesus Christ [...]
The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the quest for political power is destroying the church arrived this week. (Only have read the introduction so far. Let me lay out why this book is an important read for Christians (HT Karissa). Here is the thesis of the book:
I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism [...]
Mark Van Steenwyk offers this effective use of satyr. A healthy dose of humor seems like a good elixer for this rainy Friday afternoon.
Along the same vein…did you hear that Hillary Clinton is a Muslim?
Ron Sider has a new book (see excerpt here) that looks like an important read. I also found this endorsement by Scot McKnight for the upcoming conference at Eastern University.
After observing the divisiveness of the 2004 election season, even within Mennonite congregations, John Roth proposed that Mennonites take a 5-year sabbatical from political engagement. I was a delegate [...]
“To read deeply in history is to cease being Protestant.”
Cardinal John Henry Newman, himself a famous convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism
I’m pretty sure I have ceased to be Protestant (to the extent that I ever was). As a good Evangelical, I grew up with a fairly under-developed ecclesiology (H/T J.I. Packer for the “stunted ecclesiology” [...]
Someone shared a story with me this week about some young men who had been shunned by their Beachy Amish church. They were shunned not for some sexual sin or for any other hedonistic indulgence. It actually is quite different than that. I heard the story second hand, so I can only relate the gist [...]
Which side wins—Democrat or Republican, East or West, elite or bourgeois or proletariat, Herodian or Zealot—may be considered news within the system, but until someone brings into the system resources from outside it, unless someone kicks a hole in the wall of the system so we aren’t trapped within it, there is no real good [...]
I identify my ecclesial context as the Anabaptist stream. However, several conversations have been a significant part of my ongoing theological process and formation. I am an associate pastor at Sunnyside Mennonite Church. Although we are a local expression of the Body of Christ, we are not independent from the Great Christian Tradition. We are [...]
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