Links: Question 5 Elgin Hushbeck Reply to Question 5 Joel Watts Reply to Question 5 Joel Watts Question 5 Response 1 Second Reply Set (Both Joel Watts and Elgin Hushbeck) Question: You write of finding “the least bad one.” Why are you so pessimistic that the situation cannot be righted? Even if Eden started off…
One of the things I have learned as a student of Stanley Hauerwas is to continually question the questions being posed for debate on any issue and not to simply accept the terminology and definitions that frame so much modern theological and ethical discussion. From Allan R. Bevere: Faith Seeking Understanding (Note to readers: In…
by Shauna Marie Hyde (For the complete post, click here) I won’t lie; I struggle as a Christian pastor. There was a time when I wore my clerical collar with great pride and now sometimes I wonder if I really want to put it on. The Christian church is failing and it is sad to…
Recently, as our congregation’s sexton was changing the sermon title on the congregation’s marquee, a woman drove up and asked him, “Are you the new age church?” He responded, “We’re part of the United Church of Christ and our pastor is a biblical preacher.” She continued, “But, how can you be Christian? You’re celebrating earth…
Last night I had the privilege of discussing these topics with Thomas Hudgins. Thomas has just turned in his dissertation dealing with the manuscripts used in the production of the Complutensian Polyglot, and he discusses the relationship of this text to some other manuscripts as well as some of its history. During the second half…
According to Henry, this project had its impetus in a comment made by Geoff on his blog while discussing the book Christian Archy by David Alan Black. In the first chapter of Christian Archy, Black credits Jacques Ellul and Vernard Eller for their contributions to the topic of “Christian Anarchy” and for influencing his own…