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Derek Webb, Edgy and a Voice in the Wilderness
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Scot McKnight
J.R. Briggs recently suggested to me that I should listen to Derek Webb’s new album called Mockingbird . So I did. I liked it. What I liked most was the lyrics, and the following lyrics — from “A New Law” — is about the call to freedom in Galatians (so it seems to me) and…
Perilous Times 1
By
Scot McKnight
I’m sitting here reading Robert Wuthnow’s newest book, Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats , and I’m thinking about how I — “we” would be better — responded in the 70s. In spite of all you hear about the glory days of the hippies, during…
What’s that guy saying? (click it to enlarge)
By
Scot McKnight
Our Common Prayerbook 12
By
Scot McKnight
First the request and then the problem and then the theology. That’s the basic structure of Psalm 12 (after the jump). Let’s look at the 2d and then the 1st and then the third. I’ve often observed, and observe here again, how much complaining about enemies goes on in the prayers of David. How much…
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