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June 2007

June 04, 2007

The Pope’s Jesus 5

In the 4th chp, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, discusses at length the Sermon on...

June 01, 2007

First Day is Goldingay

On the first day of the month, unless it falls on a weekend, we dip...

May 2007

May 31, 2007

The Pope’s Jesus 4

What did Jesus mean by the kingdom of God according to Pope Benedict XVI? In...

May 30, 2007

The Pope’s Jesus 3

Chp 3 in Pope Benedict XVI's book, Jesus of Nazareth, concerns the temptations of Jesus...

May 29, 2007

The Pope’s Jesus 2

In his Introduction, Pope Benedict XVI emphasizes Jesus unmediated contact with the Father, and this...

May 28, 2007

The Pope’s Jesus 1

Books about Jesus attract me, but when the Pope (Benedict XVI) writes a book on...

May 25, 2007

Friday is for Friends

We close today the book of Darryl Tippens,Pilgrim Heart. A gentle, ruminating set of reflections...

May 18, 2007

Friday is for Friends

We've come to the 16th chp in Darryl Tippens, Pilgrim Heart. The topic: Suffering: The...

May 16, 2007

Historical Jesus Anthology

Some people study the Gospels to focus on the author's shaping of the message --...

May 15, 2007

Graduation Book Recommendation

Hi Scot It's the graduation season again and there are a couple of students in...

May 14, 2007

Evangelical, but what kind?

One of the great virtues of Mark Noll's The Rise of Evangelicalism, and this is...

May 11, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Ah, a man after my own heart: Darryl Tippens' 15th chp is about "Reading and...

May 04, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Yet another topic for discussion -- a topic rarely discussed in spiritual formation books and...

May 02, 2007

The Plan of God: What is it like?

From John Goldingay, Israel's Gospel, p. 61, where he describes how he teaches his classes:...

May 01, 2007

Lauren Meets North Park 2

Lauren's second lecture at North Park was on Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity,...

May 01, 2007

First Day is Goldingay

It's May first, and the first day of the month is Golding-day -- the day...

April 2007

April 27, 2007

Friday is for Friends

We are in our 13th installment in Pilgrim Heart by Darryl Tippens -- and this...

April 23, 2007

Christianity for the Rest of Us 2

Diana Butler Bass' book, Christianity for the Rest of Us, has three parts: description of...

April 20, 2007

Friday is for Friends

When I picked up Darrly Tippens' book, Pilgrim Heart, I knew something was different: anyone...

April 17, 2007

Christianity for the Rest of Us

I'm reading Diana Butler Bass's Christianity for the Rest of Us (HarperSF, 2006), and want...

April 13, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Anyone who invites me to a table to talk about discernment and wisdom finds me...

April 11, 2007

Soft Patriarchalists?

In W. Bradford Wilcox, Soft Patriarchs, we are treated to a sociological analysis of fatherhood,...

April 09, 2007

Theopolitical Imagination

At times on this blog I have observed that I believe far too many Christians...

April 06, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Paradoxically, one of the disciplines most needful for the community of faith is the discipline...

April 05, 2007

The Truth about Conservative Christians 7

The implication of chp 7 in Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout's book, The Truth about...

April 05, 2007

Christians in the Visual Arts

North Park has a nice gallery in our classroom building in which we are treated...

April 03, 2007

The Truth about Conservatives 4

In chp 6 of Greeley and Houk's The Truth about Conservative Christians [CCs] we are...

April 02, 2007

First Day, Goldingay

This is the first in a monthly series on John Goldingay, Old Testament Theology, volume...

March 2007

March 30, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Any study of the disciplines that shape Christian community eventually comes face to face with...

March 29, 2007

The Truth about Conservatives 3

In chp 4 of A. Greeley and M. Hout's The Truth about Conservative Christians [CCs]...