Holiness Reeducation

I really appreciate a pastor who writes a chapter called Can we ______? and then fills in the blank with some of the more difficult questions a pastor gets asked about sex. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a first review of Mark and Grace Driscoll’s book Real Marriage. Today I am reviewing the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Is there an inherent impossibility to what we as evangelicals believe about scripture? Do we gloss over mutually exclusive ideas about the authority of scripture to maintain a air of unity around God’s word? Those are some of the really difficult questions I have already encountered in the new book The Bible Made Impossible by [...]

It is hard to believe that August is already upon us. With the flipping of the calendar to August the outlook changes significantly. By the end of the month all the summer vacations will be complete, the kids will be back in school, and football will be upon us. So today’s ramblings are dedicated to [...]