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2014-08-11T13:19:58-07:00

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Mark Driscoll Needs a Prophet of His Own

Last updated on: August 11, 2014 at 1:19 pm By Jack Levison

So here's what I suggest. Mark Driscoll should take some of his royalties and hire a full-time prophet. Not a friend but an opponent. Not a pushover but a person of incisive intellect. Maybe not even a man but a woman. Someone like Deborah, who exercised enormous power among Israel's early judges (Judges 4). Like Huldah, whose prophecies led to intense reform (2 Kings 22). Read more

2014-07-23T20:06:20-07:00

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Golden Boy

Last updated on: July 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm By Jack Levison

But that shy boy has, at least for now, at least last night, something that many soccer stars and Cambridge grads and concert masters may never know: unabashed generosity. “I have something that will help people. Make sure that you give them to people who are poor, to help them.” Read more

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2014-06-27T14:11:15-07:00

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A Wee Little Man and a Big Insight

Last updated on: June 27, 2014 at 2:11 pm By Jack Levison

When I put these together, I saw something glaring. My actions were exactly backwards, a negative mirror image of Zaccheus. I had lingered, stayed away, from Jesus. When Jesus and I were together, I hurried away. Zaccheus hurried in order to have Jesus stay with him; I stayed away then, when I was with Jesus, hurried away. Read more

2014-06-12T10:05:03-07:00

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A Memorial Service, Memory, and the Eventual Gifts of Suffering

Last updated on: June 12, 2014 at 10:05 am By Jack Levison

Last night was the memorial service, not just for Paul Lee, who died on Thursday, but for everyone affected by the SPU shooting. My twenty-two year old daughter and I came straight from the gym. We arrived about five minutes early, and the place was packed, so our friend Celeste said we could sit on the stage, facing out. So Chloe walked sheepishly up in her t-shirt, gym shorts and flip flops, and I toddled up, to lend a speck... Read more

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2014-06-11T12:50:31-07:00

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Christian Prayer as Media Event

Last updated on: June 11, 2014 at 12:50 pm By Jack Levison

My colleague, Rick Steele, wrote this essay for TIME magazine online in the aftermath of the shooting at Seattle Pacific University. It is significant, so I reproduce it here in full. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Last Thursday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., a senseless act of violence visited Seattle Pacific University, where I teach. Within minutes, squad cars, fire engines, ambulances, helicopters, and TV news trucks had converged on the scene of shooting that took the life of one of our students and injured two others. The... Read more

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2014-06-10T14:42:44-07:00

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Seattle Pacific University as Our Place and the Poetry of Wendell Berry

Last updated on: June 10, 2014 at 2:42 pm By Jack Levison

As faculty, staff, and students grapple with the goings on at SPU, we discover gems. My colleague, Doug Koskela, read this bit of Wendell Berry’s poem to his students this morning. He sent it to us with a few words of explanation, which I include as preface to the poem. ______________________________________________________________________________________ In comments from students, colleagues, and alumni over the last few days, I’ve noticed the theme of particularity of place coming up a lot. Especially from alumni commenting on... Read more

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2014-06-10T10:00:04-07:00

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After the Shooting at SPU: Consolation, Desolation–and Hope

Last updated on: June 10, 2014 at 10:00 am By Jack Levison

On the day of the shooting at SPU, the religion editor at Huffington Post asked me to write. I didn’t think I could, but I woke up early on Friday to see if the young woman in surgery had survived. I started to write. I kept writing. This is what I wrote: ____________________________ I expected the shock of an earthquake–not a shooting. In fact, they’re retrofitting our oldest building, Alexander Hall, to prevent earthquake damage. How do we retrofit Otto Miller Hall... Read more

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2014-06-05T14:32:42-07:00

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The Church is Dead, but Don’t Tell the Pentecostals!

Last updated on: June 5, 2014 at 2:32 pm By Jack Levison

We can sneer at the Pentecostals, given the aberrations and excesses of their faith, but we might be, in the long run, outsiders looking into the future of Christianity. Read more

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2014-05-21T22:49:41-07:00

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Garage Sale Antics and the Church in Antioch: Reflections on Generosity

Last updated on: May 21, 2014 at 10:49 pm By Jack Levison

Their giving wasn’t determined by how much was needed but by how much they had to give. We have no clue that the prophet Agabus did anything more than announce the famine; he didn’t order them to give, tell them who should give, or how much. The believers in Antioch simply decided to give because they felt they had enough, even plenty. Read more

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2014-04-25T15:45:05-07:00

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The Book to Begin on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Last updated on: April 25, 2014 at 3:45 pm By Jack Levison

But there are other tears to be wept in The Family. In an eerie parallel to the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22:6, "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son,” Laskin describes how sixteen year old Shimon Senitski was forced to carry logs to a forest clearing outside the Nazi slave labor camp of Klooga in Estonia, how the boy was shot in the head with the other surviving slaves just days before the camp was liberated, and how his body was incinerated in a vast pyre of logs and corpses. Read more

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