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Mark Driscoll’s Fall: A Day of Reckoning for Evangelicals?
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Kristina Robb-Dover
[CORRECTION NOTE: An earlier version of this article suggests Mark Driscoll has in fact now resigned; this is in fact not the case, and I’m very grateful to fellow saint and sinner Mark for bringing this error to my attention. Driscoll is facing increasingly louder calls for resignation from within his own church and by…
“Reading the Bible For All It’s Worth”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Some people really know their Bibles. One of them is Steve Hayner. Steve is the president of Columbia Theological Seminary, in Atlanta, Georgia, and has taught missiology, pastored churches, and worked at the helm of the student ministries organization, InterVarsity. He also has gotten three degrees in biblical studies, and has written a book on…
Is Rick Warren’s Daniel Plan An Exercise in “Selfish” Bible Reading?
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Lately, as I make my way through Rachel Held-Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood- (stay tuned for my upcoming review in the online ecumenical publication, Sermons That Work)– I’ve been obliged to reflect on the nature of “biblical authority.” This is a term that we evangelicals love: we have been known to throw it around to…
The World of Biblical Literalism: Men With Short Hair and Women Without Jewelry or Leadership Skills
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Fellow saints and sinners have left some interesting comments during the last few days! Someone with the online name of “Roodness” writes the following in response to my “Coffee with Jesus” lampoon of manliness pastor and cage fighter Mark Driscoll’s remarks on women in leadership (see http://blog.beliefnet.com/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners/2012/01/coffee-with-jesus-jesus-sits-down-with-mark-driscoll.html): “…It really comes down to: do we take the…
The Brain on Faith: Part 3 of a Four-Part Interview
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Kristina Robb-Dover
We’re back with Stanford neuroscientist Saskia de Vries in a conversation about neuroscience and faith… I’m curious about how you read Scripture these days, and want to spend some time here. How do you read the creation story, for instance? In a soundbite, I take Scripture seriously, but not literally. That always sounds a bit…
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