Responses to Pluralism
February 27, 2008
I’ve been thinking about pluralism in the context of ministry for the past few days because of an interview question I received from a church in the Bay area. These are some of my thoughts on what it means (or should mean) to do ministry in such a diverse area as the San Francisco/Bay area. [...]
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Questions to All Your Answers: A Review
September 10, 2007
Roger Olson’s Questions to All Your Answers is an argument for what he dubs “reflective Christianity” in place of “folk Christianity.” He writes, “Folk Christianity consists of a common stock of cute or comforting sayings and sweet aphorisms worked into and out of songs, poems and devotional books” 1. Olson, a professor of theology at [...]
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Krakauer’s Honesty…
July 23, 2004
We all have presuppositions, biases and ideas that under gird much, if not all, of what we write. Sometimes great miscommunications and misunderstandings occur simply because we think we know what others’ presuppositions are…we assume. And everyone knows what happens when you assume right?
Krakauer ends his book, Under the Banner of Heaven, by spilling out [...]
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I hate organized religion!
July 8, 2004
I love surprising people. Last month, as I waited for my shuttle from the Burbank airport to downtown Pasadena, I had a wonderful conversation with a woman. The more we talked, the more she began to share about her life, her children and some of her religious upbringing. I had already mentioned I was Presbyterian [...]
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Oral Tradition
January 14, 2004
Eerdmans Bible Dictionary says this about Oral Tradition:
There can be no doubt that most of the Bible existed first in oral form. The oracles of the prophets, the psalms of the Jerusalem cult, the parables and teachings of Jesus all were first delivered verbally. The major dispute among scholars concerns the length of time between [...]
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A Truth Seeker
October 5, 2003
I spent last night with friends at Oktoberfest in downtown Twin Falls. Friday night was apparently the busy night, so last night was pretty lame. We did see a lot of people we knew though. I never have understood drunk people. Especially those who think that’s all there is to do.
We were standing outside [...]
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