For those of you familiar with the Emergent Church conversation and how many in the Reformed camp find fault with it (and those in Emergent who find fault w/the Reformed) you might enjoy the following two Top 10 Lists. 
For those of you with little or no understanding of the humor involved, or the shallow attempt at it, consider yourself particularly blessed.
Emergent Pullet vs. Reformed Capon
HT: TSK
“Being a Christian has always involved becoming a Christian.” - Pete Rollins, How (Not)To Speak Of God
This little quote is also on the Wheatland Mission site. (The bottom left column.) It seems that following Christ, being an active endeavor, requires continual growth. Other folks have suggested the use of the term continuous conversion which means that our Christian life means being converting, re-converting, becoming and re-becoming a follower of Christ every day. Living in this kind of rhythm might make us a more repentant people, a more humble and obedient community.
What do you think? Does the idea of continuous conversion make sense? Do you think it is consistent with Christianity as you know it?
Stanley Hauerwas is an interesting combination. He is the son of a bricklayer from East Texas and received his Ph.D. from Yale. He is a pacifist but he cusses like a sailor. He is an academic theologian, ethicist, and philosopher who has taught at Notre Dame and Yale. He is also, apparently, someone who takes God and prayer seriously.
Not long ago he was described as “America’s Best Theologian” by TIME Magazine. He responded simply by saying: “Best is not a theological category.”
I mentioned earlier that it would be impossible to do this book justice in a few blog posts so I want to wrap up this up by pointing any interested readers to some links where Wright speaks about the resurrection and where others interact with his book.
The Resurrection of the Son of God enjoys a lot of applause from the evangelical world because he clearly makes his case and does so by appealing to the plausible historicity of the Christ’s resurrection. He doesn’t approach the subject as a detective or journalist, as some others do (rightly so), but as an historian. In do doing he reminds his reader that the work of history is not the study of events that can be repeated in a lab but the study of events that are, by nature, unrepeatable.
It goes without saying that everyone would benefit from reading this book. It also goes without saying that you need stamina and dogged determination to get through it. Of course it is well worth the read.
Also, check out one of his more recent books that deals with a lot of the practical implications of Resurrection, Surprised by Hope.
Tim Keller comments on The Resurrection of the Son of God along with his new book, The Reason for God. The article is here: First Things. You can find the quote by itself in Rustin’s blog: TK on NTW.
James Hamilton has a fair minded review in the Trinity Journal.
Here is what can only be described as a hostile review by Robert Price. Now a non-theist (atheist) Price’s review is scathing and almost humorous in its invective. He call’s Wright the “the grinning spin-doctor of the Grand Inquisitor”. Ouch! One needs a running start for an insult of that magnitude. Not for the faint of heart.
Finally, there is the N.T. Wright page which includes many different articles on numerous subjects, including the The Resurrection of the Son of God, along with other reviews, video/audio of Wright speaking in numerous settings and so forth. It is worth spending a little time there.
Forgive my link-happiness.
I am trying out this new theme because you can read more of the text than on my old one. Of course, this is plain old WP “off the shelf” theme but it’s clean and I like it. Let me know what you think.
The tabs that were on the top of my old blog are now in the “pages” section on the top right corner. Just in case you were interested. Let me know what you think of this theme. Does it bore you? Does it look so, 2005?
Today is Memorial Day, at one time it was called Decoration Day, it is an important time to remember those who have perished in the defense of our country. Today we honor them and all who have served, are serving or will. A sacrifice well worth the praise we should never forget.
Here is an old Robbie Robertson tune, complete with video from the late 80’s. Fallen Angel was written to commemorate some friends of Robertson who had passed away. I think it fits well here.
