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The Church is Wrong
So charge many of our fellow young Christians, most recently amidst the controversy over Matthew Vines’s God and…
FIRST LINKS — 5.16.14
The Literature of the Standing Desk Dominic Smith, The Millions How Catholic Fashion Got That Way Ruth…
God Reconciles Us
Jennings observes, as many have, that the New Testament says a great deal about God overcoming our…
Subversive Meals
I begin with two fundamental objections to R. Alan Streett’s Subversive Meals, a study of early Christian meal…
Feast of a Perishing World
Reflecting on Paul’s Eucahristic teaching in 1 Corinthians 10-11, Theodore Jennings writes (Transforming Atonement, 162): “To see…
Pentecostal Judgment
Scot McKnight (A Community Called Atonement, 75-6) observes that the prophecy of Joel 2 that is fulfilled…
Identification for Incorporation
Scot McKnight (A Community Called Atonement) sums up the atonement as “identification for incorporation” (107). Jesus identifies…
Three to Four
The Lamb’s worthiness to take the book is triple (Revelation 5:9-10). He is worthy because: 1) He…
Fighting Crony Capitalism Just Won’t Be Enough
Timothy Carney argues that Republicans could make 2014 a referendum on corporate welfare. That is fine as…
Québec at the Crossroads
What happens when a people loses faith in its gods? Half a century ago the province of…
Women and Teaching in Evangelicalism
The new president of Cedarville University, a Christian college in Ohio, has decided that no woman shall teach…
Mad Men Gone Schizoid
Season Seven, Episode Five (“The Runaways”): A very disjointed episode of Mad Men. Don Draper is marginal to…
First Links — 5.15.14
What Does Religion Look Like in Prison? Casey N. Cep, Pacific Standard Will the Movies Ever Catch…
Potter, Clay, and Divine Repentance
In a subtle discussion of divine repentance, R.W.L. Moberly (Old Testament Theology, 122-3) offers this complex reading…
Pastoral Carnality
Gordon Lathrop’s The Pastor: A Spirituality is a wise and beautiful book, to be savored slowly. It’s not…
