Jesus Creed

Thanks to Andrew Rogers, here’s a video review of The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible .

Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever…

Our book, The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others , is getting a new cover. What do you think?

What is the best Christian, theological analysis of President Obama’s new health care proposals and plan?

Buckingham Fountain, Chicago!!!! Good one from Mrs. Neff. The future car is an iCar! Lots of future education in the church will be from sites like this — and the series by Hurtado looks incredibly interesting to me. Do you believe in hell? Pastors and the soft sell on hell. Religion and social media, as…

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We are in a conversation and discussion about John Walton’s (professor at Wheaton) new book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. (By the way, if you’d like a wonderful and God-shaped exposition of Genesis 1-3, I suggest the brand new book by Marva Dawn called In the Beginning, God:…

A huge issue has arisen amongst evangelicals: social justice and social action have become front, left and center — in shaping our behaviors and in understanding the gospel … and Patrick Mitchel, from Ireland, we get a pushback that can make us think again. The issue is one of “how much continuity is there between…

Wow, did you see this piece in CT? It’s by Mark Regnerus. Indeed, over 90 percent of American adults experience sexual intercourse before marrying. The percentage of evangelicals who do so is not much lower. In a nationally representative study of young adults, just under 80 percent of unmarried, church- going, conservative Protestants who are…

I had a riot reading Ammon Shea’s Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages . There are two parts to this book — there is the personal story of the experience of reading 8-10 hours a day, holed up in a library in NYC, consuming large quantities of espresso — he says a…

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