Category: theology
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Babette’s Feast
Earlier this week I finally watched Babette’s Feast, the Danish film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987. Directed by Gabriel Axel, Babette’s Feast is rich in Christian imagery, especially the surprising nature of grace. More than anything else though, it was the eponymous meal of the film’s title and…
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Even with Bin Laden: “Forgiveness is first.”
Michael’s recent post about Bin Laden’s death is a wonderful example of a pastor doing good theology in response to an event that has grabbed everyone’s attention. Christians love enemies. We don’t celebrate at their deaths. If anything, we mourn their deaths because we mourn the deaths of those we love. At the heart or…
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“Crowds are a worse danger, far worse, than drink or sex.”
I’m finishing up Eugene Peterson’s wonderful memoir, The Pastor, a book I’ve anticipated eagerly since I first learned of it last year. About halfway into the book, in a chapter titled “Company of Pastors,” Peterson includes a letter he wrote to a colleague who was leaving his church for one “three times the size of…
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Weekend Reading
Miroslav Volf asks the provocative and important question, “Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?” The fact of the matter is this: fearful people bent on domination have created the contest for supremacy between Yahweh, the God of the Bible, and Allah, the God of the Quran. The two are one God, albeit differently…
David W. Swanson 