Review of Diana Butler Bass’s ‘Grounded’ – by Caleb Miller
Review of Diana Butler Bass’s ‘Grounded’ – by Caleb Miller
Question & Response: Parable of the Dragnet (Matt 13:47-50) – Brad Jersak with Jacob McMillen
Question (Jacob): Jacob McMillen is a freelance writer and the editor of Brazen Church A friend of mine just directed me to this passage, and I haven't read anything on it. After spending a few mins on it, nothing really comes to...
Taking a Break from Deconstruction – Caleb Miller
The approach so many take to their faith is found only in positive affirmation of things they already believe or the repeated affirmations of the commonly accepted doctrines of their local body of faith. This is known as cataphatic theology, which finds its...
Review of Maurice Friedman’s ‘My Friendship with Martin Buber’ – by Ron Dart
It is 30 years ago this year I began a PHD thesis on Martin Buber at McMaster University. McMaster was a hub of Biblical Jewish-Christian Studies and, in a much more general sense, historic Jewish-Christian relationships (for good and ill). Needless to say, the...
Janus, Terrorism and Peacemaking – Ron Dart
For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a pirate to Alexander the Great. The King asked the fellow, ‘What is your idea, in infesting the sea?’ And the pirate answered with uninhibited insolence, ‘The same as yours, as in infesting the earth! But...
Review of ‘The Study Quran’ – by Caleb Miller
Nobody believes that an individual or isolated group of individuals who decide to blow up an abortion clinic or enter with guns blazing to be indicative of orthodox Christianity (orthodoxy here meaning the “accepted norm” rather than the Orthodox church as an entity)....
The Victory of God’s Perfect Love (it’s not about the ‘power’) – Bev Mitchell
It's not God's power that we need to focus on, it's our misuses of the power we are given. Just like God's power, our power needs to come under the supervision of love. We are not good at doing this. We are so bad at it, in fact, that we expect even...
Martin Buber, Zionism, Edward Said and New Perspectives of Paul (pt. 2) – Ron Dart
Glossary: Philo-Semitism: Teachings of esteem towards Semitic people groups, including the Jewish people. Often reduced to an uncritical support of Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel, and used as a means of critiquing replacement theology or supercessionism as...
“All” Will Be Restored: Dream of the Broken Glasses – Brad Jersak
Last night I had a dream in two parts. In part 1, I was citing a catena of biblical texts to a congregation of open-hearted people. In the dream, I was consciously aware of the critical difference between a catena and proof-texting or...