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Comments Esther Confronts Xerxesby Lindsey McCormack Remember our friend Jim LePage, whose Word series captured some of the most beautiful, compelling, bizarre, troubling, violent, and redemptive stories from the Bible in stunning poster-style images? Well Jim is at it again, only this time he has teamed up with Troy Deshano and a group of extraordinarily talented contemporary graphic artists to create the Old & New series. Tongues of Fireby Brian Danaher Based on biblical stories and passages... read moreN.T. Wright on the Enlightenment, postmodernism, and common misreadings of scripture
Comments It’s Monday, which means it’s time to continue series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be. As part of the series, we’re working our way through several books, and have already discussed The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith. Up next up is Inspiration and Incarnation, by Peter Enns. But currently, we’re discussing Scripture and the Authority of God by N.T. Wright, and today I want to address Chapter 6, entitled &ldqu... read moreThe Canon, the Reformation, Rationalism, and Breasts
Comments As part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, we’re working our way through a stack of fantastic books about how to read the Bible. We’ve already discussed The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith. Right now we’re discussing Scripture and the Authority of God by N.T. Wright, a New Testament scholar. And next up is Inspiration and Incarnation, by Peter Enns, and Old Testament scholar. Today I want to discuss Chapter 5 o... read moreDid the New Testament authors know they were writing scripture?
Comments As part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, we’re working our way through a stack of fantastic books about how to read the Bible. We’ve already discussed The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith. Right now we’re discussing Scripture and the Authority of God by N.T. Wright, a New Testament scholar. And next up is Inspiration and Incarnation, by Peter Enns, and Old Testament scholar. (Yeah, I realize we may have these last tw... read moreN.T. Wright on inspiration and the word of God
Comments This year, we’ve set aside Mondays to discuss how to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, and right now we’re working our way through N.T. Wright’s Scripture and the Authority of God. (Next up, Inspiration and Incarnation by Pete Enns.) Now, we got a little distracted over the past few weeks trying to figure out whether Wright would identify himself as a Calvinist or not. I think we’ve resolved that issue adequately enough for the time.... read moreRealistic Moments
Comments I found these images via the delightful Rachel LaMothe Stone, and simply had to share them. They were created by her father, Tom LaMothe, and are used here with his permission. Tom is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Greenport in Greenport, New York. Talk about learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be! (See also: “Honesty Above Propriety: Jim LePage Takes a New Look at the Bible”) What other biblical moments might make for less-than-precious images... read moreN.T. Wright, Calvinism, and Scripture
Comments Today we continue our discussion of N.T. Wright’s Scripture and the Authority of God as part of our series on learning the love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be. Now, last week we hit something of a snafu when, in commenting on Wright’s kingdom-focused view of sovereignty, I wrote that “N.T. Wright is not a Calvinist.” Several of you noted that this might not be entirely true, reminding me that Wright considers his views consistent with the Refor... read more‘Authority,’ ‘sovereignty,’ and other scary words
Comments Today we continue our discussion of N.T. Wright’s Scripture and The Authority of God as part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be. Last week, we discussed the thesis of the book—Wright’s assertion that “the ‘authority of Scripture’ can make sense only if it is shorthand for ‘the authority of the triune God, exercised somehow through Scripture.’” “When we take the phrase &ls... read moreUnpacking the authority of Scripture with N.T. Wright
Comments Today we jump back into our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, with a new book—Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today by N.T. Wright. This is the second book we will be discussing as part of our series. The first, The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith, challenged us to rethink some of our assumptions about Scripture and address ways in which the Bible has been objectified, idolized, and misunderstoo... read moreTaking the Bible seriously means embracing its tension and complexity
Comments This week, we’re wrapping up our discussion of Christian Smith’s excellent book, The Bible Made Impossible. As expected, this book has been a fantastic conversation-starter and a great launching point for our yearlong series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be. Next we’ll be discussing N.T. Wright’s Scripture and the Authority of God. So if you want to read along, consider ordering the book this week. In The Bible Made Imp... read more"You think that by Scripture you possess eternal life..."
Comments “You diligently study the Scripture because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me.” –John 5:39 “It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit, and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.” – C.S. Lewis We have just two weeks left to discuss Christian Smith’s book, The Bible Made Impossible as part of our series ... read moreIs there a difference between a 'Christian worldview' and a 'biblical worldview'?
Comments As part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, we’re working our way through Christian Smith’s excellent book, The Bible Made Impossible. Smith tackles the problem of “biblicism,” which he defines as “a theory about the Bible that emphasizes together its exclusive authority, infallibility, perspicuity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability.” B... read moreGod Hates Cretans? (and other passages of Scripture we’d rather not talk about)
Comments As part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, we’re working our way through Christian Smith’s book, The Bible Made Impossible, In it, Smith tackles the problem of “biblicism,” which he defines as “a theory about the Bible that emphasizes together its exclusive authority, infallibility, perspicuity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability.” Biblicism f... read moreI Could Have Used This Book Twelve Years Ago: A Review of “The Evolution of Adam” by Peter Enns
Comments Within the first week of my freshman year of college, my Introduction to World Literature class included a reading of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian myth about a hero who is described as 1/3 man and 2/3 god. As we read the text together in class, I couldn't help but notice some striking similarities between this text and the familiar texts of Genesis and Ecclesiastes, but when we got to the part where Gilgamesh speaks with Utnapishtim, a survivor of the Great Flood, I disintegrated into a ... read moreA very "biblical" blog post
Comments “Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read’st black where I read white”- William Blake In the coming weeks, we’ll be diving into some excellent books about how to read the Bible—N.T. Wright’s Scripture and the Authority of God, Peter Enns’ Inspiration and Incarnation, Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book, and more—but before we get there, we’ve got to do a bit of deconstructing. We’ve got to talk about how not to r... read moreAre Christians really “People of the Book”?
Comments This is related to our earlier discussion about biblicism... Back in December, I found myself scratching my head over a paragraph in an article by Anthony D. Baker in Christianity Today: “The first thing Muslim children learn about Christians is one of the last things Christians learn about themselves: we are a 'people of the Book.' Perhaps we ought to ask how to make this observation from the Qur'an true, once more, among those who fellowship around the Bible. How can we form ou... read moreThe problem of biblicism
Comments So I’ve added another six or seven books to my “biblical” reading list, thanks to your suggestions for best books about the Bible. (Good thing I got an Amazon gift card for Christmas!) But before we get into those, I want to spend a few weeks with Christian Smith’s excellent book The Bible Made Impossible. As important as it is to seek out better ways of reading the Bible, I think we have to start by deconstructing a bit, and Smith does a good job of addressing what has... read moreEsther and Vashti: The Real Story
Comments When I was a kid, I imagined Esther to be something of a beauty pageant contestant. I figured that, in addition to her twelve months of beautification, she must have performed a talent and answered questions from a glass bowl before winning the heart of a love-struck King Xerxes. I never learned in Sunday School that Esther, whose Jewish name was Hadassah, was forced, along with perhaps thousands of virgin girls from Susa, into King Xerxes harem. Or that the king had banished his first ... read moreWhat are the best books about the Bible?
Comments For the next several months, we’ll be devoting Monday posts to conversations about the Bible. I’d like to discuss a few books during that time. So far, these titles are on my list of possibilities. Which ones interest you the most, and what would you add to the list? Eat This Book by Eugene PetersonInspiration and Incarnation by Pete EnnsThe Bible Made Impossible by Christian SmithHow to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stewart The Blue Parakeet... read more“Honesty above propriety” - Jim LePage takes a new look at the Bible
Comments After I first came across Jim LePage’s Word series online, I couldn’t stop thinking about the stunning, poster-style images he created for each book of the Bible. Jim is a graphic designer from St. Paul, Minnesota, who, in addition to doing freelance design work, serves as Design Manager at Woodland Hills Church, where Greg Boyd is a pastor. What I love most about the Word series is that it manages to capture some of the most beautiful, compelling, bizarre, troubling, violent, a... read moreLoving the Bible for what it is, not what I want it to be
Comments My relationship with the Bible has been a lot like that of a daughter to her parents. I’ve been through the happy, childlike dependency stage, the one where I believed the Bible was impenetrable, the stories of Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, and Joshua and the Battle of Jericho as true and as good as my mother’s scent. Then, as a young adult, I fumbled through an angry stage, one where I realized that after Joshua “fit the battle of Jericho,” God told him... read moreIdols of Paper and Ink
Comments Today we continue working our way through Evolving in Monkey Town with an excerpt from Chapter 17, entitled “Sword Drills” Sometimes I wonder who really had the most biblical support back in the 1800s, Christians who used Ephesians 6 to support the institution of slavery, or Christians who used Galatians 3 to support abolition. Both sides had perfectly legitimate verses to back up their positions, but in hindsight, only one side seems even remotely justifiable on a moral level. O... read moreBetter Conversations About “Biblical Womanhood” (Part 2)
Comments photo © 2009 Jamie | more info (via: Wylio) So yesterday I pushed back a little bit at Tim Challies and those in the biblical womanhood movement who teach that the Bible speaks against women “letting themselves go.” I noted that part of the problem is that we have grown so accustomed to using the word “biblical” prescriptively (to mean, “what God wants”) rather than descriptively (to mean, “that which is found in the Bible”), we... read moreIn Search of a Better Conversation About Biblical Womanhood (Part 1)
Comments photo © 2009 Jimmie | more info (via: Wylio) This morning, pastor and blogger Tim Challies responded to a post I wrote a few months ago entitled “Thou Shalt Not Let Thyself Go?” The original post, which I wrote as part of my year-long experiment in biblical womanhood, evoked more than 250 comments and remains one of our most-read posts of all time. It examined a popular teaching among some Christians that women should maintain a certain standard of beauty throug... read moreShowing 1 - 25 of 55 Articles | Page 1 of 3
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