Here’s an interview with the author of Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries and Other Christians in Disguise (via A Conservative Blog for Peace). Who are the avant-garde Orthodox?These were orthodox Christian thinkers and artists who were not theologians and made important and somewhat revolutionary contributions to various secular disciplines. They’re interesting people because they’re both subversive…

Via Thunderstruck, an article about hip young Christians: They pile onto couches in a Longview living room to watch a DVD about sex, bearing the signs of hip young adulthood — flip flops, muscle Ts, alt-country cowboy hats, tattoos, piercings, moussed ‘dos.Leafing through their Bibles, they listen to a DVD-recorded pastor discuss the Song of…

I’m curious what translation of the Bible folks use most frequently and/or find the most helpful. I still read the beaten up copy of the Revised Standard Version with the red faux leather cover I got when I “graduated” from Sunday school at Hillside Presbyterian in 1984. It may be time for an upgrade, so…

I recently finished C.S. Lewis’ Reflections on the Psalms, and he had some things to say on the question of Scripture’s inspiration as well as the realtionship between the OT and the NT that I thought were blog-worthy. In chapter 10 Lewis takes up the question of “second meanings.” How is that the church can…

People are rightly horrified by the killing of an innocent man in the London subway who police mistook for a terrorist. The Philly Inquirer ran a heart-wrenching story today on the man – Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian who came to Great Britain in search of a better life. What I couldn’t help but…

Trailer for Walk the Line (Johnny Cash biopic) online (via Amy Welborn). And is Phoenix doing his own singing? Sounds like it.

I am 22% Hippie. What? Am I a Republican? Why did I even bother taking this test?! I guess I’ll go back to my George W. Bush fan club and tell them I just wasted 10 minutes of my life. At least I don’t stink, man. Take theHippie Test@ FualiDotCom

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the…

Continuing with my lazy-blogging, let me throw out another article written by someone else. This essay, by Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf analyzes the ecclesiology of 1 Peter in light of Ernst Troeltsch’s church/sect dichotomy which H. Richard Niebuhr picked up on in his Christ and Culture. Volf thinks that Christians should not be countercultural per…

Via Confessing Evangelical comes a discussion of The DaVinci Code and various pseudo-Christian neo-gnosticisms by N.T. Wright (go to page 22 of the PDF). Wright points out, among other things, that it was orthodoxy, not the privatized spirituality of the gnostics, that provided a challenge to the political status quo: [T]he divinity of Jesus is…