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Review of The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Read more: Review of The Future of Biblical InterpretationEdited by Stanley E. Porter and Matthew R. Malcolm. The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics. IVP Academic, 2013. 165 pgs. $14.40 (Paperback). The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics, is a collection of essays initially presented at a conference held at the University of Nottingham in honor of…
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Ferguson, Racism, and Advent
Read more: Ferguson, Racism, and AdventI feel very unqualified to even write on Ferguson and racism and yet I think to remain silent would be even worse. As I wrote in an earlier post, I do not have the best track record when it comes to awareness about issues of race and privilege. And in that blog, I noted that…
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Review of Struggles for Shalom
Read more: Review of Struggles for ShalomLaura L. Brenneman and Brad D. Schantz, eds. Struggles for Shalom: Peace and Violence Across the Testaments. Studies in Peace and Scripture 12. Eugene, OR.: Pickwick Publications, 2014. xxiv + 376 pp. $44.00. Paperback.. The interplay between the concepts of peace and violence in the texts of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament holds together…
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Review of the Oxford Handbook of the Psalms
Read more: Review of the Oxford Handbook of the PsalmsEdited by William P. Brown. The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms. Oxford University Press, 2014. 661 pgs. $150.00 (Hardback). The recently released Oxford Handbook of the Psalms represents an impressive encyclopedia of Psalms scholarship. The volume includes ten sections (with an additional two appendices) produced by over forty experts in their respective disciplines. In the…
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What Are We Singing?
Read more: What Are We Singing?A few days ago while driving, I was listening to a few hymns I hadn’t listened to in quite some time. I was singing along to the songs, trying to remember which words went with which verse. My mind was drifting and I wasn’t really thinking about the music until I heard myself mess up…
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The Religion of the Cosmos
Read more: The Religion of the Cosmos“Big cosmology has become our secular religion, a church even atheists can join.” – Jeffrey Kluger, Time Magazine I cannot stop thinking about Interstellar. In the interest of full-disclosure, my husband and I named our son Nolan (after the film’s director, Christopher Nolan), so I am predisposed to think that anything Chris Nolan creates is…
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A Letter for Pastors-in-Process
Read more: A Letter for Pastors-in-ProcessRecently, I heard about a young man interested in planting a church. He was from a large evangelical church in Orange County, CA. He asked to meet with the pastor of a medium size church in a nearby city that was already full of solid evangelical churches. This young man shared with the humble pastor…
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Brittany Maynard: A Holy Response?
Read more: Brittany Maynard: A Holy Response?A few weeks ago my wife alerted me to the plight of Brittany Maynard. As a millennial who has a fairly strong disdain for technology and news media, I was proud that it took so long to discover the cultural flashpoint that this woman’s life had become. My wife further pointed me to a blog…
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Giant Faith
Read more: Giant FaithAs most of you already know, the San Francisco Giants are World Champions. And as most of you probably know, that fact makes me very happy. This postseason run was incredible, and I’d say this year’s victory was the sweetest of the past three (#Dynasty). The series was incredible! Of the seven games, five were…
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Some thoughts on the Mars Hill Controversy
Read more: Some thoughts on the Mars Hill ControversyIt was announced the other day that, on top of everything else surrounding the Mark Driscoll controversy of the past few years, Mars Hill church is now going to disband. The Mars Hill website stated their plans with the following four points: “(1) All of Mars Hill’s existing church properties will either be sold, or…