A Thinking Reed

I’m not sure I was part of the target audience for Peter Enns’ book The Evolution of Adam, but I still got a lot out of it. Enns reviews the scholarship around the composition and authorship of the creation story, as well as its historical context, and argues that the Adam story (i.e., the version…

May 19, 2014

Mavis Staples, “Jesus Wept”

May 16, 2014

All truth is God’s truth

I liked this post from Rachel Held Evans in which she rebuts critics who say that those who propose revisions to traditional church teachings are merely trying to “conform to the world.” She points out that many of the calls for change on matters like gender roles, the relationship between science and the Bible, and…

May 15, 2014

Staple Singers, “When Will We Be Paid”

May 9, 2014

The Clash, “The Equaliser”

May 2, 2014

Getting by without infallibility

An exaggerated or inaccurate view of Scripture is not a high view of Scripture, it is just a wrong view of Scripture. A high view of Scripture takes the Bible seriously, while also taking its historical context and the humanity of its authors seriously. A high view of Scripture is held by those who actually…

May 2, 2014

Buyer’s remorse, reader’s guilt

When I was young–particularly when I was in college and grad school–I had a lot of time to read. Hours upon hours if I wanted to. What I didn’t have was a lot of money to buy books. And these were the pre-Amazon days when it wasn’t easy to come by any book they didn’t…

April 30, 2014

Black Sabbath, “Warning”

“Sabbath’s genius was finding the hidden malevolence in the blues, and then bludgeoning the listener over the head with it.” (source)

April 25, 2014

Midnight Oil, “Outbreak of Love”

I was listening to this album earlier, and this song struck me as fitting for today.

April 18, 2014