One of our readers is well-employed and competent, but is now considering a mid-life change to attend seminary and pursue — well, he’s not sure if it will lead to church ministry or possible academia. He’s asked to open this up to the Jesus Creed blog community … so what do you think? I’d be…

Missional work, at times, involves overt opposition that leads to persecution. As the Spirit-prompted believers had warned Paul of such, so now it happens, and here’s the report in Acts 21. The open areas in the middle of the Temple complex is the Court of the Gentiles. What this text shows is that Paul’s trouble…

Stephen C. Meyer has published a (very long, but readable) book, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, outlining his argument in favor of intelligent design. Chapter 15 is where we finally get to the point. The groundwork has been laid, and Meyer explains why he thinks that intelligent design is…

John Walton’s new book on Genesis (The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate ), which essentially argues that Genesis 1 is about the function of materials instead of the construction or creation of materials, was blogged about on this blog at length. The book generated lots of conversation and learning.…

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