"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
Here’s a transcript from a recent episode of NPR’s “Speaking of Faith” – a good discussion with Rabbi Elliot Dorff and NT scholar Luke Timothy Johnson about marriage and sexuality. Johnson emphasizes the conflicted evaluation the NT gives to marriage and family and how that doesn’t exactly mesh with some of the “family values” rhetoric we often hear.
(via LutherPunk)
LTJ is awesome—I first heard him on Speaking of Faith a few years ago when he was talking about gnosticism. I look forward to listening to this one.
Yeah – his book on The Real Jesus made a big impact on me. And I recently picked up a collection of essays he wrote for various outlets (Commonweal, etc.) called The Living Gospel which is really good.
A Thinking Reed 
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