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Greg Boyd's review of Re: Mission
I gave Greg Boyd a copy of Re: Mission at the Christian Associates staff conference in Sopron. He read it straightaway and we had a highly invigorating chat about it on the bus to the airport. He has posted a short review of it on his blog. I’m delighted that he recommends the book so enthusiastically, but there are some matters raised by his review that I think need clarification.
Interview published in Precipice magazine
An interview that I did with Darren King, mostly about The Coming of the Son of Man but also touching on the need for a narrative-realist biblical theology, has just been published at Precipice magazine. This is how Darren introduces the interview:
One of the hallmarks of the Emerging Church is its desire, its commitment, to move beyond traditionalism, to examine various aspects of Christian faith with an openness to new answers - and new questions. While critics often (unfairly) accuse the movement of "rejecting the Bible", the reality is that those immersed within the EC conversation are often willing to embrace the complexities of the Bible in ways that are unfamiliar to others. And embracing the Bible means entering into the story, understanding the journey as it was for the earliest believers, as part of the process in receiving it as our own.
Gabriel's Vision and the resurrection of the Messiah
A recent article in The New York Times (’Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection’) has drawn attention to a stone tablet on which are inscribed 87 lines of Hebrew that ’may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days’. The stone came to light ten years ago, but its significance only became apparent after two Israeli scholars, Ada Yardeni and Binyamin Elitzur, published an analysis of what they called ’Gabriel’s Vision’ in the Hebrew language journal Cathedra.
'Intentional kingdom living' and the sheep and goats
I receive a weekly email from the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity headed ’connecting with culture’. The most recent one talks about the excellent Street Pastors programme in London, which was started in 2003 by Les Isaac. Jason Gardner makes the point that part of the calling of the church must be to work alongside paramedics and the police to ’bring rescue to our violent streets’. The theological rationale for this, if you like, is stated in this way:
Surprised by Hope: facebook, parousia and new creation
I was recently invited to join a Facebook group named ’Initiative For Every Pastor To Read "Surprised By Hope" Before Easter 2009’, whose laudable objectives are defined as follows:
This group is for those who
commit to doing everything in their power to
encourage/force/entice/trick every pastor they know to read Surprised
By Hope by N.T. Wright before Easter 2009.
This group is for all
who can not sit through another Easter sermon by Pastor Frank Gospelman
or Reverend Jeremy Smoothtongue....
Gospel and the post-Christendom paradigm
I had a very enjoyable time last Sunday with a group in Soest, in the Netherlands, called Oase at the invitation of Johan ter Beek. The first session consisted of an exploration of the question: What is the gospel and what is our hope? The second looked at the praxis of an Emerging Church: What does it take to re-imagine the church for the future? What follows here is a developed version of the first talk.
The Canaanite 'genocide' and the renewal of creation
I’ve just got back from a fascinating and at times harrowing week in Rwanda and Burundi where I took part in a gathering of ’emerging’ African leaders, organized by Amahoro Africa. The theme of the conference was ’The Gospel of Reconciliation’, the 1994 genocide and its aftermath being the inevitable focus for a conversation that broadly addressed the inadequate response of the post-colonial church to the humanitarian, social and political crises that currently afflict East Africa. We listened to the barely believable stories of genocide survivors and visited a number of sites - churches in particular - where helpless Tutsis had been slaughtered in their thousands. Even fourteen years after the event it is clear that beneath a veneer of micro-managed social stability anger, grief and fear are still intensely felt. The church has powerful stories of forgiveness and reconciliation to tell, but in the eyes of many Rwandans the church was largely ineffectual when it really mattered, when the frenzied mobs came wielding their machetes to exterminate the cockroaches.
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