From the monthly archives:
I was just sent the book God’s Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Shaping of Congregations in the mail this week by Pulpit and Pew and Dechant & Hughes. I hope to read this book fairly quickly and have a review posted up within the next two months. Right now that’s quick for me. But as [...]
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Warning: I just got home from college group and posted this at 1:00am so I hope my thoughts make sense. Many of you have heard that phrase before, “drinking water through a fire hose.” Basically meaning that it’s impossible to actually drink water because of the amount and pressure and force of the water coming [...]
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I like Out of Ur’s new feature, Out of Context. Should promote interesting discussion. Out of Ur, Will Willimon
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I love this time of year. It’s the time of year when the students in our college ministry return and the excitement in the air is amazing. Though we have college ministry all year long, we lose most of our students over the summer, and then they slowly begin to return from mid-August till the [...]
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Over the last 8-10 months I have posted a few blog entries disagreeing with this whole idea that there is a feminization of the church going on, or that trying to masculinize it is some good idea or something. You can read them here and here. So it’s good to see Scot McKnight take up [...]
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One of the reasons that I absolutely love Fuller Theological Seminary is because of our president, Richard Mouw. This morning I was driving to work talking with a classmate who sat all weekend in a retreat with Mouw and the trustees, and my friend was telling me just how he impressed he had been with [...]
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HT: Zach Lind Mark Driscoll is featured in Salon Magazine, in an article titled, Come as you are, with the subtitle/heading of “At Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Snoop Dogg figures in sermons, housewives cradle babies in tattooed arms — and religious fundamentalism rules. Meet the Disciple Generation, the fierce new face of American evangelism.” [...]
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I’ve been doing my best to search the vast blogosphere for what I need, but I figured some of you might have some good referrals. I am looking to link up with some college interns/ministers/priests in Catholic campus ministries, whether they are on-campus, or off-campus. If any of you have some good suggestions, or some [...]
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Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction This book has been sitting on my shelf for quite a while, waiting for a review. I was sent this book by New York University Press for a review and it has taken me awhile to get around to it since things have been so crazy. So finally [...]
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I appreciate the way Scot McKnight is approaching this topic. I get the impression he is going to look at it from many different angles. Today he looks at the story of Ruth Tucker and her “departure” from Calvin Theological Seminary. women in ministry, theology, Scot McKnight
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