Atonement is an emerging issue, both for the emerging movement and for traditional evangelical Protestantism. I’m working on a book for Abingdon on atonement, and presently sorting out some of the literature. The volume by Charles Hill and Frank James III, The Glory of the Atonement (IVP, 2004), represents a strong-minded strand: the evangelical Reformed…

David Cooke, a former student of mine at TEDS and now the pastor of a burgeoning, healthy church in Placerville, asked us out for a Jesus Creed weekend. Cold Springs is doing Jesus Creed in their Bible studies, and that is of course the best combination we have found this year in traveling around speaking.…

I missed yesterday because our flight was delayed, but I want to resume where we left off last Friday, and stick to 1 Peter 2:11-12, which is the heart of Peter’s letter. The readers to whom he gives this address are powerless: Rome’s might is unstoppable, and the little clutch of Christians in Asia Minor…

Many of us in the emerging movement are seeking to build bridges to the Christian past — to each of the three major forms: the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church, and Eastern Orthodoxy. But, there is “give and take”: that is, as we learn from each of these great traditions of the Church, we…

More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners