Tuesday, March 30, 2010

civil religion

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From Jim West's blog: Athletics in our society is a religion. Making Christianity complicit in the practice of that religion at the ex...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Liminality...

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Huh? For those of you who don't know, liminality is the point of change; you aren't quite what you were—but you're not quite wha...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Why the fuss?

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I rarely comment on political issues, but this question from a Sri Lankan Christian needs a good answer (HT: Scot McKnight ): Most of us n...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Reckoned

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“It is not the 'righteousness' of Jesus Christ which is 'reckoned' to the believer. It is his death and resurrection. That i...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Cheese update

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Well, we tried the Colby this weekend. I took a half-pound of it with me when I went to get Debbie. I think it aged at too warm a temperatur...

The problem of definitions

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This is a wonderful word picture, and accurate, to boot! Wright is talking about the vocabulary for translating the Greek word πιστις (PISTI...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Did Paul write it?

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“In much Protestant scholarship of the last hundred or more years, Ephesians has regularly been deemed post-Pauline, and Colossians has freq...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

The economy and the Bible

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I wonder what would happen to the US economy if we followed this set of laws in Deuteronomy: Every seventh year you shall grant a remission ...
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What's missing?

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Jumping backwards, just because my bookmark was in the wrong spot, we go back to the beginning: ...the question is about the means of salva...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Justification

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I recently finished reading Wright's Justification . I found it a good read, but Wright is a hard author to grab little quotes from, whi...
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Spring

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I think Spring is here. Or, at least there are signs everywhere that it is close. I went for my first extended bike ride last night; the wea...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The summary is...

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The basic claim of this book has been that Paul's soteriology is best described as theosis, or transformation into the image of the keno...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Thought for today

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I was reading this morning in Reading Joshua as Christian Scripture and ran across this: “...during the Enlightenment there was a shift awa...

Promised pictures

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OK, I've been promising pictures of a few things lately, so here we go... My $5.00 cheese press (actually, it might be about $8.00). Not...

Ouch!

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We just got a shipment in from Israel around lunch time. It seems that every big international shipment ends up with at least one fork from ...
Monday, March 15, 2010

A pacifistic Paul?

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Paul is frequently portrayed as the paradigm of Christian conversion, both in Christian spirituality and in Western art. He is touted as the...

That took way too long!

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I made cheddar cheese on Friday night—actually into Saturday morning. I didn't realize it would take as long as it did. I estimated 5 ho...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Divine child abuse?

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We have been arguing for a nonviolent God and a nonviolent apostle. However, the description of God's response to human sin in the form ...

Eisenbrauns sale

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OK, the other day I mentioned the monthly sale, but not the weekly one. It is set to expire in about 3 days, so you had better hurry! BookNe...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

The cross--or the resurrection

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Most importantly, without the resurrection of Christ, the cross of Christ is simply the shameful but appropriate death of a messianic pret...