Phillip Winn has some good thoughts on the second place Scripture should take to Christ (originaly from the BHT).

Imonk started a great group blog all about Advent. There are alot of great thoughts, reflections, and prayers from BHT fellows and friends all focused on the Advent of Our Lord. Come and check it out!

For those who have ever wondered, “Why Cultural Savage?”

November 26, update: This post is in response to thoughts like this: "I've just been informed that one cannot be a Barthian and a Christian"(overheard at the BHT).

Theologians do not merely amplify, refine, defend, and deliver to the next generation a timeless fixed orthodoxy. Rather, by speaking from within the community of faith, they seek to describe the act of faith, the God toward whom faith is directed, and the implications of our faith commitment in, for, and to a specific historical and cultural context.
The fundamental Christian faith commitment to the God revealed in Jesus is unchanging, of course. But the world into which we bring this confession is in flux. As a result, theologians function in a mediatorial manner."

-Stanley J. Grenz Theology for the Community of God, pg 12

This is going to come as a shock to the anti-emergent and “truly reformed” crowd out there, but to do theology is to be missional. The task of the theologian is not to defend the truth from “the flooding tide of the liberal culture”. Rather, it is the theologian’s task to discover the means, method, attitude, and vocabulary to articulate and manifest the unchanging truth of Jesus, his death, resurrection, and coming again to the liberal culture, or whatever cultural mindset the church finds itself in. Read the rest of this entry

As of late, my days have been drab. I have spent a lot of time wasting time, being alone, and trying to write. Nothing good has come of it though. Still, Annie Crawford asked for people’s dreams… specifically for their idea of a perfect day. I have spent a lot of time thinking about it… a perfect day… it’s almost more than I can describe. There are so many details: what time do I wake up… what do I have for breakfast… should I imagine married life or still be single… kids or not… where in the world should I be… My imagination roams from simple tales to fantastic stories, from spy adventures to thoughts of heaven.

Am I an over thinker or what?! Read the rest of this entry

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Wyman Richardson (of the former Y-blog) is re-posting his “baptist paleo-orthodoxy” project over at Communio Sanctorum (Yes, that is correct; a baptist minister is posting regularly on a blog that is “a Reformational contribution to catholicity“. How cool is that!). Read it; it’s good stuff, well worth time and thought.