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Prayer for the Week
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xscot mcknight
Second Sunday of Easter Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ’s Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you…
Weekly Meanderings
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xscot mcknight
Do you know about the Spiritual Formation Forum in Milwaukee this summer? I will address how a “whole gospel” reshapes our understanding of spiritual formation.
Friday is for Friends
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xscot mcknight
Anyone who invites me to a table to talk about discernment and wisdom finds me a willing participant — and I think because the older I get the more significant wisdom has become in my life. Darryl Tippens devotes a chp to “Discerning” in Pilgrim Heart, and there is here a very nice sketch of…
Love in the Key of Delight 10
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xscot mcknight
As on last Friday, so today: I’ll sum up some ideas about love and marriage from our reading this week of Song of Solomon 1:12–2:7.
Women in Ministry: Three Women 1
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xscot mcknight
Today we take a look at Priscilla, one of three women we need to pause to consider when it comes to our series about women in ministry. What we discover is a woman who had significant influence and ministry in the earliest Christian movement.
The Unobserved Racism
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xscot mcknight
A colleague of mine, Soong-Chan Rah, recently saw something, said “enough is enough,” pointed to a blatant case of Christian racism, called the authors and leaders, got to the publisher (Zondervan), and ignited genuine learning that found its way to reconciliation. Here’s the story:
Love in the Key of Delight 9
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xscot mcknight
This dialogue of admiration continues. He glows about how beautiful she is and how she leaves the rest in her wake… and she glows right back:
Soft Patriarchalists?
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xscot mcknight
In W. Bradford Wilcox, Soft Patriarchs, we are treated to a sociological analysis of fatherhood, and his major contention is that there are new models of family and fatherhood arising in the culture and Church today, particularly in Conservative Protestant [CP] churches. Mainline Protestants [MPs] see some changes as well. Speaking of fathers and mothers,…
Bug War
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xscot mcknight
About two years ago we began having bugs, little buggers, in our kitchen. We’d find the little pesky things in Webster’s water bowl. So, Lukas suggested we get one of those electronic devices that sends off some kind of sound or ultrasonic wave and it knocked out our bugs – for about two years. However,…
Love in the Key of Delight 8
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xscot mcknight
The young woman, enthralled with her lover’s presence and delighting their Edenic space, now declares who she is:
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