reposting from last week. Part 1 & Part 2 provide the lead in Part 3: Jesus tells his disciple to buy a sword? We come to that famous passage in Luke 22 where Jesus tells his disciples to buy a sword. 35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, … Continue reading »
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Jesus & (S)words part 2
I’m reposting last week’s HBC conversation in 3 parts [part 1 is here] Part 2: There are lots of swords in the New Testament. The Word of God is compared to a double-edged sword and Jesus comes back wielding a sword. Maybe the Bible is more than ‘O.K.’ with swords and sword imagery? Let … Continue reading »
Jesus & (S)words
This conversation went really well last week over at Homebrewed. I thought I would post it here in smaller chunks for anyone wanted to continue the conversation. Jesus tells his disciples to sell their bags and buy swords. Why? And why then does he reprimand Peter for using a blade at the moment when it … Continue reading »
Democracy, Pentecost, and the Old Testament?
Is it possible that democratic desires are present in the Old Testament and I have just never seen them before? Is the de-centering of Pentecost and the empowerment of the people foreshadowed in the Old Testament? Can we say A) that Pentecost in the undoing of Babel and B) that God’s desire has always been … Continue reading »
Charismatics, Evangelicals, Singing & the unamed ‘You’
by Bo Sanders Three interesting conversations have recently merged in my little corner of the interwebs: The Republican presidential primaries have brought to the limelight some very complex subjects like race, economics, and religion that are handled with stereotypical banter, generally at increased volume. Santorum is an uber-Catholic, Romney is Mormon, Newt wants the Evangelical … Continue reading »
My 200th post is to thank my International Readers!
According to WordPress, this is my 200th post. Of course that is a somewhat arbitrary number since I started on an I-web blog for 2 years, then moved to Blogger for 2 years and have only recently moved to WordPress. WordPress is constantly making upgrades and I just wanted to tell you about my favorite … Continue reading »
Opting Out of the Argument Culture (follow up to 4 > 2)
Last week I put out a fun challenge for Good Friday: repent of either-or thinking. It got a great response and a reader asked how one might pursue a conversation differently. After a decade of trial and error, these are the three things (appropriately) I have found most helpful in breaking down the inherited dualisms: … Continue reading »
Four is greater than Two: Good Friday repentance
So often when I hear two groups arguing, I think to myself “the problem isn’t what we think about this subject, it is how we are thinking about it.” If you have read posts here for any time at all you will know that I am not a big fan of dualism in general. I … Continue reading »
Post-Contextuality : Evangelism and Missions must change
by Bo Sanders posted at Ethnic Space Contextual theology was the subject of my Master’s thesis.* I was, and continue to be, enthralled with the possibility that the gospel could be uniquely expressed in every culture in a manner that was both authentic and indigenous to that group’s place and time. Lamin Sanneh goes so … Continue reading »
Violence in the Hunger Games
originally posted at Homebrewed Christianity Writing a paper on Globalization called for a serious study break and so I headed to the opening day of the Hunger Games. There are three things that you should know about my movie going experience: My theater is one block from UCLA and I appeared to be the oldest … Continue reading »
