I have a post up on Jesus Creed about “The Problem with Paleo-Orthodoxy.” Check it out.
Month: February 2010
Os Guiness on how the North American culture wars have fueled the unnecessary rift between Christian faith and science. Excellent.
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Adams on the Creed
Nicholas Adams, writing on the Creed in the Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics:
The Creed is a prayer that ends with ‘Amen.’ This is good news because it frees Christians from the prison of thinking it a mere bold declaration. . . . It is the poetry of lives, rather than the clarity of statements, that shows how tradition and reasoning are woven together in the Trinitarian, prayerful recitation of the Creed. Such lives, invited to a world we did not make, are made into signs. No philosophical system, and no brilliant theory of the relationship between tradition and reasoning, can replace the embodied poetry that living signs, saints, are called to be in the world. The Creed, as an uttered part of this embodiment, simultaneously proclamation and prayer, is part of the Eucharist, and that means it is not only about speech and talk; it is an occasion in which we are shown how to share food, and, in the breaking of bread, are given a foretaste of things to come, and taught how to transform the world.
Amen again.
My next post on “Law” is up at Jesus Creed: Mission, Accommodation, and the Rule of Law. Check it out.
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Blog Humor
Here’s my latest ambient / experimental music composition, Chasing Leviathan.
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Best Christian T-Shirt
HT: clanotto
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My Boss Is a Jewish Carpenter?
According to Mark Goodacre’s NT Pod, maybe not. A tekton was any sort of worker with one’s hands, not necessarily a carpenter.
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I'm Against It!
If you have ever worked in the academy — or in the Church, or in a law firm — you will likely be able to relate to this.
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State of the Bride
The pastor of the Hope Center, an urban ministry with which I’ve done some volunteer work, posted this interesting video on my Facebook wall. I absolutely love the creativity of the visual arts work here, and the “performance art” aspect of the piece. The artist’s commentary is interesting: “the fatherless generation has brought about the shepherdless generation.” I’m not sure I totally understand or agree with the intent of that statement. Urban churches such as the Hope Center, in my experience, tend towards a Pentecostal style of theology that emphasizes the moral and spiritual apostasy of the institutional Church. Some of this critique is drawn from dispensationalist teachings about the “true” church in the end times. Unfortunately, this can lead to an anti-intellectual and insular form of Christianity, which overlooks the many good things God is doing in denominational and other churches. And having grown up in relatively wealthy suburban evangelical churches, I’ve been blessed with many excellent shepherds, so it’s a bit hard for me to relate to the urban context. Nevertheless, I think there’s truth here that we all need to hear.