Evangelical Monk

Part 1 is here. The next couple of points from Professor Paeth are, I think, really where he is aiming. He suggests traditional sexual ethics simply aren’t relevant.

          for most Christians, as for most people in general, if a moral norm seems irrelevant

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It seems like a little dust up is abrew in the Christian blogosphere. Tim Dalrymple posted a blog about his experience in seminary where his fellow students apparently ran with a looser attitude toward intramural sex, drinking and drugs. I suspect his point wasn't necessarily about his particular seminary, but rather about the changing clim...

It seems like a little dust up is abrew in the Christian blogosphere. Tim Dalrymple posted a blog about his experience in seminary where his fellow students apparently ran with a looser attitude toward intramural sex, drinking and drugs. I suspect his point wasn't necessarily about his particular ...

Last week there was a little stir going on at Jesus Creed concerning social justice and good works. I've posted on that as my thinking goes along the lines that this focus on social justice isn't really all that it seems. I know, and you can see it in some of the respo...

From time to time as Christ followers we may be called to consider how are we doing in this faith walk. Many times I think we ask ourselves if we are also following the ideal of Western civilization - independent, self-suffcient, and such things. I remember reading a fair amount of Brennan Manning and he speaks much about this condition - which is not terminal but may be lifelong. Sometimes I think we have to experience "failure" in the worldly sense of that word in order to un...

Sometimes we like to hold on tightly to the stuff we have, I think. Not that holding on isn't a bad thing, just that sometimes it will take a little more of us than we realize or really want to lose.

Here is part of the devotional I read for today (the 21st) that reminds me it is all His in the first place. Maybe that was the lesson of the Garden way back - it never really was ours in the first place. Maybe that ste...

It appears Scot McKnight touched some nerves the other day with his posting, at the Jesus Creed, about "Kingdom Work, Social Justice."    It's a long read but try to work your way through the 55 comments (as of this writing) and it seems to me that the point isn't coming across.  I wonder if this idea of a salvation gospel, McKnight calls it the ...