[Feb.10, 2017] 9:15 AM This week I just happened to read David Frum’s How to Build an Autocracy. (Autocracy’s a good Greek word, by the way.) It’s a pretty creepy disquisition (don’t ever expect dystopian essays to be happy reading), but I’ve been in enough foreign countries to understand how democracy can be — and…
Bob Cornwall, author of Ultimate Allegiance: The Subversive Nature of the Lord's Prayer, offers some thoughts on the temptation and how we read the Bible.
In the Areopagus volume Except for Fornication, Van Parunak takes the view that Jesus forbids remarriage in any case, including a necessary divorce, unless the other spouse has died. Scott McKnight takes a rather different view of the texts on divorce in this post. What do you think?
8:43 AM Let's see: Is divorce ever permissible for a believer? And what about remarriage after divorce? You would think that such questions would hardly need to be asked in the Bible Belt, but the fact is that divorce is not uncommon in many of our churches. The world remains a place of struggle between…
11:42 AM This morning I’ve been sitting beside a warm fire in my library pouring over the final page proofs of the latest book in our Areopagus series, Bob Cornwall’s Ultimate Allegiance: The Subversive Nature of the Lord’s Prayer. I have long felt that our usual method of reading the Disciples’ Prayer needed a corrective;…
