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Knowing the Currents 1
By
xscot mcknight
If you were to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and either wander through the bookstalls or spend an hour or so with the book that lists sessions, times, and locations, one thing would surely strike you. As Tony LaRussa once told famed baseball writer George Will, “There’s a lot goes…
Your Favorite Season of the Year
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xscot mcknight
My question is not about which is your favorite sports season of the year but which is your favorite “weather” season of the year? We offer a slight pity party for those in southern California and Arizona and Texas and Florida. For those of us who know and love the seasons, which is your favorite?…
Missional Jesus 42
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xscot mcknight
Here’s a challenge tossed out by missional Jesus and it is a challenged that shakes human relations to the core, opens up the potential for a society constituted on the basis of grace, and presents the follower of Jesus with a challenge that does not come naturally. Missional Jesus summons his followers to forgive others.
Culture Wars and Political Correctness
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xscot mcknight
In her essay, “Procrustes and the Culture War,” Anne Fadiman warns us of getting caught on the bed of Procrustes — her image of getting caught up in the ideology of political correctness, of the ideology that you must toe the party line once you sign on the dotted line for that party. She contends…
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