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Brighter Day
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xscot mcknight
One of our favorite singers at Willow, Annie Sander, now has a new album: Brighter Day.
Friday is for (Original Sin) Friends
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xscot mcknight
Chapter four of Alan Jacobs’ book Original Sin wandered for me, and it didn’t wander in the directions I wanted it to so I found myself saying, “Why go there?” The images of the chapter, however, are captivating. It’s a chp that gets its bearings, if it has any, from the Feast of All Souls.
The Olympics
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xscot mcknight
I’ve been to one Olympics. The last night of Track and Field in Atlanta. We are a sports family and we have always watched the Olympics, especially Track and Field, gymnastics and swimming in the summer Olympics. (I will admit I did some of the track events when I was younger. My father was a…
Missional God 8
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xscot mcknight
The second half of chp 5 in Chris Wright, The Mission of God, explores how God’s confrontation with idolatry shapes mission. Some very good ideas here.
How Ironic!
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xscot mcknight
Some of you know that a couple weeks back Kris and I were rear-ended and our car was badly damaged. We thought for sure it would be totaled, but our insurance company thought it was salvageable — grunts and moans deleted. At that time, we opened up this blog for advice about what car to…
Heaven 24
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xscot mcknight
2 Corinthians 5 fits in many ways with the concerns of the re-made spiritual body of 1 Corinthains 15. So here is our text for today:
Good Teachers 2
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xscot mcknight
The first question Ken Bain discusses in his book, What the Best College Teachers Do, is “what do good teachers know about how we learn?”
The Bible Experience
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xscot mcknight
I don’t know if you heard this, but The Bible Experience — the audio recording of the Bible by Hollywood African Americans — won a huge award. (It is on Audio DVD and MP3.) It has won the 2007 Audio Book of the Year, beating out JK Rowling! Some of you have this, and I…
Heaven 23
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xscot mcknight
Paul’s next reference to heaven is 1 Cor 8:5, and it speaks of false gods whether in heaven or on earth, and it doesn’t do much for this discussion. But 1 Cor 15:47 does:
Australian Consolation: Disappointment
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xscot mcknight
Brian Rosner’s chp in The Consolations of Theology about disappointment and Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a model of showing how the theology of a given theologian consoles in the midst of emotional trauma.
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