Easter Vacation

I have quite a back log of material in my moleskine to post here, but it will have to wait until after Easter vacation. I hope to begin rewriting some chapters and to continue posting articles and books of interest to my "postmodernism and Christianity" project.  Of course publication is still on the horizon and [...]

One of the Best Blog Posts Ever

Andrew Jones has put together one of the best blog posts ever about the emerging church and new media. It is filled with relevant links and playful interaction with the importance of the web and blogging today. In particular, he provides analysis of how society has changed since the time of Neil Postman’s book Amusing [...]

Losing My Fundamentalism

While at the Northshire Bookstore yesterday I picked up Bart Ehrman’s book, Misquoting Jesus. If anything, this book is a monumental achievement. Ehrman has boldly gone where no theologian thought possible to traverse: he has written a popular level book on textual criticism. Textual criticism is not for the faint of heart. It’s a [...]

My way of reading

My way of reading books is probably not the most efficient, but at least I have fun. While I just finished What Saint Paul Really Said, I have a number of other books waiting in the wings to be picked up. I’m about half way through the Last Word by Wright and have [...]

Ministry in the Image of God

As a member of the IVP Book Club, I get little notes in the mail about their latest offerings. I just picked up a used copy of Ministry in the Image of God by Stephen Seamands. It was an impulse buy of sorts, but I could not pass up a chance to check out this [...]

The Temple Scroll in Cleveland?

It’s kind of crazy to think that the first stop for one of the ancient dead sea scrolls is in Cleveland, OH, but alas truth is stranger than fiction. According to NPR:
 
For nearly 2,000 years the Dead Sea Scrolls sat undisturbed in tall, earthen jars hidden in a honeycomb of caves in the [...]