Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 27th, 2009
eating our way down emmaus
I got up to the kitchen around 7pm tonight and noticed right away the smell of fish cut straight through the muggy atmosphere. I had about five liters of white wine in two sacks and sat it on the counter where Marcus had been laboring for hours over the vongole. David and Serena were at [...]
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
around the traps
A review of Scot McKnight’s latest book on Fasting
A good overview of a book called UnChristian
Ben Myers on 10 virtues for theology students and on the theology of novelist John Updike
Peter Admirand at the Irish School of Ecumenics On Forgiving the Unforgivable?
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
ahem…
Here’s some things that you should know about or read about….Miroslav Volf’s book review of Wolterstorff’s latest book
If you’re in the Indianapolis area on March 13-14, 2009, I’d HIGHLY recommend going to the conference on John Howard Yoder and the Stone Campbell Churches.
I’ve been listening to some very good N.T. Wright lectures recently from a [...]
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
a theology for playboy?
“Finally, Playboy is back in Italy!” was plastered at
the top of a large provocative advertisement leaned up against a trash can next
to the newsstand near my apartment. It caught my attention. In the ad, there
were two men, one young and one older, dangling the latest issue of Playboy
by the centerfold cleverly covering up their faces. [...]
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
Symposium on the LXX at Tübingen
Symposium on Christian Origins (1-3 April, 2009)
The Institute for the Study of Christian Origins will co-host a Symposium at the University of Tübingen, 1-3 April, 2009. The topic is: “The Septuagint and Christian Origins.”
The co-sponsor will be the Institut für antikes Judentum und hellenistische Religionsgeschichte, Prof. Dr. Hermann Lichtenberger, director. The program [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
oxymoron?
Would you normally put “Church of Christ” and “cutting edge” in the same phrase?
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
for your eyes and ears only…
I’ve come across some more audio files and articles worth your time:
Jose Gonzalez Concert on NPR
NT Wright on Reconstructing Hope (lectures given at Harvard November 2008) [H/T: Ben Blackwell]
NT Wright on Following Christ (lectures that later became the book The Challenge of Jesus)
Miroslav Volf Audio Lectures
Kingdom & Calling
Reconciliation and Forgiveness (Short video testimony)
Q&A with Volf
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