Easter as God’s Power Play
What are Christians celebrating on Easter? Not, surely, colored eggs and furry rabbits, appealing though each may be to the lush, sunny season of fertility and renewal. Nor are Christians…
Month: March 2013
Called to Be Holy (Part 1)
One of the most theologically riveting — and convicting — books I’ve read in a long time is Old Testament scholar John N. Oswalt’s Called to be Holy: A Biblical…
Easter is About Bodily Resurrection, Not Soul Immortality
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness (1 Corinthians 1:23) And when they [the Greeks] heard of the resurrection of the dead,…
Sectarian Culture Warriors Trump Ecumenical Culture Wimps
In electing the Argentinean Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), the Roman cardinals signaled that they were not one whit impressed or cowed by modern (read: American and northern European) Catholics.…
On Giving the 60’s a Break
Thomas Frank’s best-selling revisionist retelling The Conquest of Cool counters the prevailing sociological interpretation of the 60’s, according to which the fresh, revolutionary “young culture” broke free of the hierarchical…
