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We’ve put a poll on the sidebar to poll readers on some topics. I’d like to see how this works and we could have some fun with it. (I haven’t voted.) And, it would be really nice if you’d obey and not vote over and over so you can control the results. WE have that…

In this series of posts, I will look at what Jesus did and said and says to us today about being missional. “Missional,” if you recall, is a global term for what God is doing in this world and how the follower of Jesus is summoned to participate in that great redemptive work of God.…

I must tell three people a week that the emerging movement/conversation is too diverse to classify, but I continue to hear stereotypes — one recently by a professor who has absorbed the stereotypes as his own judgment. So, if you’d like to see why we need to keep emphasizing diversity, check out Sivin Kit’s recent…

I will be blogging shortly on preaching — its problems, and then do a series with Brad Boydston on Doug Pagitt’s new book, Preaching Re-imagined.

I’ve offered a mild case for inclusive translation in a previous post, and here I will use Kevin Vanhoozer’s section on what “contextual theology is not” and apply his four criteria to “what dynamic equivalency is not.” Some are suggesting that bringing James 1:20 into our world is letting our world determine its meaning. If…

Yesterday’s post discussed inclusive translation for public readings, but raised the question of what translation is all about. What are we doing, or trying to do, when we translate? I will begin with James 1:20 again. Here is the original Greek order of words: “Anger/for/of man/righteousness/God/not/produce.” Whenever we translate a sentence like this (from Greek)…

My son’s new post on short stories is up.

In general, I believe most translations are fine — I can read the KJV and ASV and the NASB and NIV and the NLT and the NRSV and the ESV and even something as paraphrastic as The Message and say to myself, “That was good, it put some words in a new order and it…

My son, Lukas, now has a blog. Take all your baseball questions to him. What a hoot for us to find that one tonight!

Just in case you didn’t see this one, you might like Brad’s story about his son. I know how he feels.
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