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All a-Julbord
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xscot mcknight
Kris and I went with Joel and Karla Willitts to Tre Kronor last Friday evening for the 5:30pm sitting of Julbord — a delicate, abundant, and cultural Swedish Christmas meal. Four courses — kinds of pickled herring, cold fishes (salmon etc), cheeses and cold meats, and then warm meats and potatoes and the like. Incredibly…
Weekly Meanderings
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xscot mcknight
No speaking events until after the New Year when I give lectures at Pepperdine University. But, I’ve got plenty of radio interviews coming up on Mary. Those evening ones tire me and I’m pooped — don’t folks know I have a blog to maintain?! [ 🙂 ]
Friday is for Friends
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xscot mcknight
Once again, we return (as friends) to M. Volf’s book, The End of Memory. His concern is how to remember wrongdoing and wrongdoers truthfully. His topic haunts those who have suffered, and those of us committed to loving our neighbors need to learn how significant memory of suffering is.
The Church’s Story of America
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xscot mcknight
Here’s the big question: Is the word “evangelical” losing its theological anchor? If you ask the theologians, an evangelical is someone committed to such things as personal conversion, the authority of the Bible, the cross, and evangelistic-missionary efforts. If you ask the American populace, however, the word “evangelical” means Religious Right, it means fundamentalism, it…
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