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Those Ancients and their Bible Reading
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Scot McKnight
Don’t know if you saw this, but David Neff reports on Robert Wilken’s opening lecture at Wheaton about how the early fathers read the Bible. I wish I could have been there, but I had too much on my plate that week. Theological readings of the Bible are becoming more and more prominent, and alongside…
Weekly Meanderings
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Scot McKnight
When this big fella came by for Trick or Treat, we gave him our pumpkin! It has been a grey, cloudy, cold week here at the Jesus Creed blog, the World Series plodded along with yet one more trophy for the bad guys, and here in Chicago the hopes are beginning to heat up for…
Religion or Revolution? 3
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Scot McKnight
Greg Boyd, in his newest book, The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution is about “sword-power vs. cross-power” (22). What makes Boyd singular is that he thinks cross-power must shape everything, and this lands him in the anabaptist camp. The difference is power over vs. power under. The…
Friday is for Friends: Rachel Held Evans
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Scot McKnight
Hello, my name is Rachel, and I’m a recovering Bible snob. I haven’t always been this way. As a child, the stories of the Bible enthralled me. I believed in them the way one believes in dinosaurs, Camelot, Abraham Lincoln, and other magical things that happened once upon a time. As a teenager, the Bible…
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