Holiness Reeducation

There are few Christian leaders guaranteed to make more news than Mark Driscoll. With the release of his latest book Real Marriage, co-written with his wife Grace, there has been a tremendous amount of news created. The book has sold very well. The book has been reviewed by lots of people. A lot of people [...]

As often happens in my life, I have a collection of books I am currently reading or preparing to read. Looking at Kindle I realized that I now have ten in the hopper that need to be consumed and digested before adding anything else to the menu. Here are the books I am reading and [...]

It was a normal Sunday night, I was watching football, reading a book and chatting with my wife. Little did I know my life would be changed (in disturbing ways) by a show that just happened to flash by on the TV. I am speaking of The Virgin Diaries on TLC. This is a “reality [...]

I just read a really interesting review of the book The END of Sexual Identity by Jenell Williams Paris over at Jesus Creed. I haven’t read the book yet, but I am adding it to my short list of books to read soon. Here is an excerpt from the review. If you are interested in [...]

If you haven’t heard that Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away last week then you aren’t reading this blog because you obviously have never been on the internet before. There has been a tremendous amount of attention the past week on the life and passing of Steve Jobs. The entire thing is frankly a bit [...]

I am always on the look out for music that speaks to preaching and this week it is the Avett Brothers on my mind. (It just so happens that Gretchen and I are seeing them in concert on Thursday). This song, And it Spread, has been swimming around in the sermon section of my brain [...]

In Christian Smith’s book the Bible Made Impossible he offers a critique and response to the views and practices of biblicists within evangelicalism. (You can see my earlier posts on this idea – part 1, part 2, part 3) In the second half of the book he makes the important shift from his deconstruction of [...]

Scot McKnight’s next project on the nature of the gospel is about to launch. Here is the promo video. The video is well done and through provoking without being intentionally antagonistic like the Love Wins promos. I would love to hear your thoughts.

In Christian Smith’s new book The Bible Made Impossible we encounter an in depth look at Evangelicalism’s foundational beliefs about the Bible and their implications. This is a challenging and important book for all of us who teach scripture, debate theology, and defend the authority of scripture to read and discuss. Last week I began [...]

I am looking for book suggestions for this fall. I am currently working on The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith, A Public Faith by Miroslav Volf and The Next Christians by Gabe Lyons. I am looking for books that have escaped my attention over the last couple of years and suggestions for some classics [...]