At the National Pastors Convention, N.T. Wright made mention in passing the book Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective by Jacques Ellul. I had only read two books by Ellul—The Subversion of Christianity and The Humiliation of the Word. And I benefited from both.
We live in an increasingly violent world and I have been conditioned by a [...]
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Julie and I recently saw the movie Juno. It’s about a 16 year old girl, Juno MacGuff, played by Ellen Page, who gets pregnant by her highschool boyfriend, Paulie Bleeker, played by Michael Cera. The film, directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, is a humorous, witty, poignant story of teen [...]
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Posted in Reviews on Jan 24th, 2008
Julie and I recently watched End of the Spear. It is the story of Steve Saint, son of martyred missionary Nate Saint, who reconciles with Mincayani, the very Wauorani warrior who speared his father on January 8, 1956. Dying with Nate Saint on “Palm Beach” that fateful day were Jim Elliot, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully [...]
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“Yet the extraordinary thing is that apartheid was a ‘biblical’ doctrine, justified ‘in the light of Scripture’ within a predominantly Christian country and supported by excellent university faculties of theology and biblical studies” (Burridge 406).
How could well-meaning, godly people–scholars and pastors and communities of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa–live believing that ’separate development’ (apartheid), [...]
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Unlike the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke), John’s Gospel has virtually litte about the kingdom of God with correlating parables, no exorcisms, no narratives of Jesus’ baptism or transfiguration, no institution of the Lord’s Table (Eucharist). On the other hand, John offers material absent from the Synoptics–the wedding in Cana, the meetings with Nicodemas and [...]
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For some years now I have been studying the composite work of Luke–his Gospel and his “history,” or more accurately “narrative discourse” of the early church, that is, Acts. It’s a double-edged work. With Luke-Acts we have a two-volume ethical narrative.
“…[W]e have already discovered at the center of Luke’s portrait of Jesus a universal mission, concerned for everyone, [...]
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