- When you wonder if you’re qualified for ministry: Don’t tell me that holy dirt beneath the fingernails doesn’t look like blog posts, carpool, science projects, teaching Sunday school. Don’t put a box around my calling, my audience, my seven days a week of holy Sundays breaking the bread and spilling the bloody sweat of serving out the determination to like my kids and not just love them right there in the discount aisle of my local grocery store. (Lisa-Jo Baker)
- Not Just a New Testament God: It’s the severity of God that frightens us, and the Old Testament is rife with it. Sure, the Lord is Israel’s shepherd, but when he steps off his throne and places his foot on the mountains, they melt under the heat of his anger (Mic. 1). How exactly does a “rod” comfort me? (Christianity Today)
- The Origin of ‘Liberalism’: When Adam Smith and a group of fellow Scots first used the word in a political sense, it meant something very different than it does today. (The Atlantic)
- The End of Charity: How Christians are (not) to ‘Remember the Poor’: I call attention to…the commonplace presumption by Christians that we are a people of charity. We are supposed to care for those less well off. Almsgiving is constitutive of what it means to be a Christian. Yet how Christians have cared for those who have less has recently come under severe criticism. I want to explore that critique and hopefully provide a constructive response. (Stanley Hauerwas)
Just for Fun
- If Sochi was Hoth. Best Winter Olympics video ever!