Tag: Jesus
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Life: A Series of Transitions
I’m preparing a series of talks for an upcoming retreat on the topic of life transitions. I’ve been mulling this word – transitions – over in my head for the past month or so and two observations have consistently come to mind. First, I don’t like transitions. In many ways the past three years of…
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“…the man at the end of the Protestant road…”
I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to…
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Wrestling for Jesus
You’ll enjoy this film far more than the title suggests. (Unless, of course, you’re the type who searches out lo-fi, indie documentaries in which case you’re already intrigued.) Ostensibly a film about Christian wrestlers in South Carolina whose matches are part WWF and part revival meeting, Wrestling for Jesus tells the story of faith gained…
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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
In 1995 Mark Noll wrote The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, a book directed towards Christian academics that was, thankfully, read widely beyond academia. The book’s hook came in a phrase often quoted over the past 15 years: The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. A…
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One.Life
It’s unlikely that you are the intended reader of Scot McKnight’s latest book, One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read it. Who is the book for? While he never says it, the presence of the hundreds of undergraduate students- Christian and not- he has taught over the years lurk in…
David W. Swanson 