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Laura Sessions Stepp, a well-known journalist at The Washington Post, has a book about the nature of life for women in the hook-up culture, and the book is nothing less than a bold revelation of things you might not want to know. The book is called Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and…

We are discussing marriage by examining the recent book of John Piper’s called This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence. Piper is a well-known advocate for what most call “complementarianism,” and I don’t know how to define this in a way that satisfies everyone, but let’s say this: as the Son submits to the Father,…

I think Sarah Palin is done with politics and I doubt she’ll run for President in 2012. The tones of that resignation, and the messages that are coming through suggest to me that she’s had it — she’s tired of what it has done to her family, to what the investigators have done to her…

I’ve heard this a number of times, I’ve read it more than that, and I know it is popular with many. Here it is: “I’m spiritual but not religious.” What do you think people mean by this claim?

There are three basic approaches to suffering: violent reaction, passive absorption, or the Jesus-following alternative of living aright while waiting for God to bring about justice. James prefers the third option, so it seems to me. Notice the emphasis on God’s just judgment that is coming in 5:7-9: Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s…

Jeremy Bouma is live blogging this preaching conference with Pete Rollins and Shane Hipps … and Rob Bell –> Drop comments here if you’d like.

Can These Bones Live? This is the question posed in Chapters 10 and 11 of Alister McGrath’s book A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology where he gives a brief overview of the chemical requirements for the origin of life.  There are two facets to this discussion.  The first is really…

We are discussing marriage by examining the recent book of John Piper’s called This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence. Piper connects marriage to justification and to forgiveness. For marriage to “display God” the husband and the wife are to live vertically with God and then to bend that forgiveness and grace out toward the…

Today I’m following (here and here) the live blogging of the conference on preaching at Mars Hill with Rob Bell, Pete Rollins, and Shane Hipps. In the midst of the comments I have heard is one potent question and I’d love to hear your response — we’d like to hear from both preachers and “listeners”:…

Conference Call with Scot McKnight Tomorrow (July 7th) Our next LIVE conference call will be tomorrow July 7th from 1-2pm (PST). Join us for an interview and Q&A with Scot McKnight, the author of The Jesus Creed and The Blue Parakeet,  a New Testament professor, and part of The Origins Project creative team. Sign up…
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