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The Kingdom is Today
Read more: The Kingdom is TodayThis year, with our students at church, we’ve decided to journey with Jesus through the Gospel according to Mark. We’ve only traveled through the first 15 verses, but I’m already excited about some of the conversations that are being sparked thus far. I especially love Jesus’ first sermon in Mark 1:14-15. Here’s my paraphrase (not…
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Books for Smart Kids Who Want to Be Smarter
Read more: Books for Smart Kids Who Want to Be SmarterI can still recall with near perfect clarity the margin notes on my first college paper. I was taking Introduction to Political Thought, and remember looking at my TA’s comments with wonderment. What does “tautology” mean? I was baffled. As much as I wanted to believe that I was adequately prepared for college—I had at…
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Breaking Down Assumptions (based off the shocking news that Hello Kitty is not a cat)
Read more: Breaking Down Assumptions (based off the shocking news that Hello Kitty is not a cat)A few weeks ago, the news went viral that Hello Kitty is not a cat, but is actually a 3rd grade girl from London. Growing up as a Sanrio fan as a little girl, I was quite shocked to hear the news about Hello Kitty. It didn’t make any sense to me, since she has…
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Review of Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard Horsley
Read more: Review of Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard HorsleyRichard A. Horsley. Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing. Biblical Performance Criticism Volume 9. Cascade Books, 2013. 2014. 340 pgs. $32.00. Paperback. Richard Horsley’s, Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing, is volume nine of the Wipf and Stock series Biblical Performance Criticism. Due to significant overlap in the content of several of the…
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Redeeming the Friend Zone
Read more: Redeeming the Friend ZoneDon’t ever condemn someone to the “friend zone.” If you do, that person will become a stripper. That’s the moral of the stage musical Rock of Ages, which some of my co-bloggers and I caught during a weekend trip to Las Vegas last month. The first act launches a love story between Drew, a busboy…
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Review of Reading the Sealed Book by J. Ross Wagner
Read more: Review of Reading the Sealed Book by J. Ross WagnerJ. Ross Wagner. Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2014. 308 pages. Softcover. Retail: $49.95. Reading the Sealed Book is a work concerned with Septuagint hermeneutics, especially as it pertains to Isaiah. For those not familiar with Septuagint hermeneutics, the first chapter alone…
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Movies: Why it’s not Just About Content
Read more: Movies: Why it’s not Just About ContentLast weekend, my wife and I went to see Boyhood, a phenomenal film by Richard Linklater about a boy, Mason, growing up. The beauty and magic of the film is that it was shot over the course of 12 years, with the actors aging as the story progresses. No aging make up necessary. No change of actors for…
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Awesome Questions
Read more: Awesome QuestionsMy husband, Daryl, and I asked our friend and fellow blogger Grace Sangalang to craft the following interview questions for us. Basically, we wanted a way to tell you more about our upcoming family shifts (happening this week!) and this seemed a good way to do it. We’re about to put into effect what we…
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Review of The Oral Ethos of the Early Church by Joanna Dewey
Read more: Review of The Oral Ethos of the Early Church by Joanna DeweyJoanna Dewey. The Oral Ethos of the Early Church: Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark. Biblical Performance Criticism Volume 8. Cascade Books, 2013. 204 pgs. $24.00. Paperback. Joanna Dewey’s recent volume, The Oral Ethos of the Early Church: Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark, represents one of the many important studies in Wipf…
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How a Migration Bloom Should Change Missions
Read more: How a Migration Bloom Should Change MissionsThe global missions landscape is far different today than it was fifty years ago. Transportation has become steadily more efficient and cheaper over the past five decades which has set up off a migration bloom all across the globe. This migration bloom has led to large-scale movement of the world’s unreached people groups (UPG’s) into…