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Preparing for Lent
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Scot McKnight
Some (low church) folks roll their eyes when they see that word “Lent” in the title of this post, and other (often high church) folks said, “Ah, yes, something for all of us.” The Church calendar is designed to embody the gospel itself on an annual basis: we begin the birth of the Messiah and…
Science, Worship, and Fasting (RJS)
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Jesus Creed Admin
A “spam storm”: of a hundred comments an hour or more requires the catcha back on for a time. Bear with us and join the conversation. (Copy a long comment before posting, so you won’t lose the thought if the system times out or you type the captcha wrong.) This is the fourth in a…
“Twinterview” on Fasting
By
Scot McKnight
The good folks at Englewood Review of Books and I tried something: an interview on Twitter. The “twinterview” was about our Fasting: The Ancient Practices book, and Josh has an amazingly clever post of the tweets. John Frye has just begun a multi-post review about the book, too. Thanks folks.
The “in order to” Problem
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Scot McKnight
What is fasting? Try defining it, and I’ll make a suggestion. Go ahead — in your mind define it. Here’s my suggestion: If, in defining fasting, we are tempted to define fasting as something we do “in order to” get something, I suggest we need to look again at the deepest wells of the Christian…
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