Monthly Archives: February 2010

About those Creeds

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Scot McKnight has a nice piece about the ancient ecumenical Creeds and their place in (Protestant, evangelical, paleo-orthodox and/or emerging) Christianity. He takes a middle road—which obviously gets bonus points from me—between those who would dismiss the Creeds as irrelevant … Continue reading →

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Liberal Politics ≠ the Gospel

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Walter Russell Mead explains why: To mistake an ideology or a social model for the transcendent and always surprising (and irritating!) Kingdom of God is, technically speaking, the sin of idolatry.  It is to worship the work of our own … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 24, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Commenter Peter Kirkpatrick has shared the following poem/meditation based on something I mentioned in my inaugural post at this blog: when the first platypus specimens arrived in England, scientists there thought the creature was some sort of hoax. Nothing like … Continue reading →

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The Bible ≠ the Gospel

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Why do so many people who have an unwavering faith in the Bible do such stupid things with it? That’s not quite the way David Ker puts the question, but he is struggling with how to teach people to do … Continue reading →

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The Gospels and the Historical Jesus

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Craig Keener asks the question: Why would scholars assume that the disciples of Jesus were less reliable transmitters of his teaching than other disciples were for their teachers? If Jesus’ disciples respected him as more than a teacher, rather than … Continue reading →

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About that Wall

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

John Hobbins has a great roundup of posts discussing the “10th-century” wall recently discovered in Jerusalem (and related finds). For those (like myself) who strongly suspect there is something fishy with how ancient chronology has been put together, there is … Continue reading →

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Ash Wednesday Links

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Here are some comments from around the blogosphere about the Lenten season that has now arrived: Ash Wednesday by Joshua Hearne reminds us that As we prepare to journey with Jesus through the desert that leads to Golgotha, we must … Continue reading →

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Lent is for All Christians

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

The February edition of Baptists Today contained a letter to the editor expressing one Baptist’s opinion of ecumenical catholicity. In his words, BT “really opened a serious can of worms” in its December issue by running an article suggesting that … Continue reading →

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Forty Days with the New Testament

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

Our church is listening to the New Testament during the forty days of Lent. Through our partnership with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, every church member who wanted one has been given an MP3 version of the New Testament. We will … Continue reading →

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The Ephesians Road

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

I think it was Scot McKnight who suggested that the “New Perspective on Paul” would make a lot more sense to traditional Protestants if they assumed that Ephesians was the epitome of Pauline theology rather than Romans or Galatians. (He … Continue reading →

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