Geoffrey Holsclaw
Last Thursday evening I was teaching my Church and Culture class at Northern Seminary, focusing on “Democracy, Capitalism, and the State.” I began the class by reading the Pentecost text and ask how this text relates to the politics of democracy. The discussion was lively. Some thought that Pentecost, with the outpouring of the Spirit […]
I often hear that in Pentecost the curse of Babel is reversed. But this is not true. Babel is overcome, but not reversed. The idea that Babel is reversed goes something like this. Because humanity, in its pride, sought to raise themselves to God’s level, God confused them with multiple languages and they were scattered. […]
David Fitch and I, of course, are very excited about our book, Prodigal Christianity. And thankfully it seems some other people are also. Now that there has been enough time for people to read and digest it, we are launching a blog tour that will feature people’s reflections, engagements, and criticism of all 10 of […]
Even missional, our own term of choice, has become a confusing venture. The idea of being missional is now attached to every kind of ministry in North America. From megachurches branding their latest programs as missional to Protestant mainline churches using missional to promot a set of social justice programs, and anti-institutional types using missional to spell the end of […]
The book of Revelation is nothing less than the Revelation of Jesus, the Lamb that was Slain but Raised Again. The lesser things it is NOT primarily about: The of the end of the world. The identity of the anti-christ. The timeline of saints departure. Hear this from Eugene Peterson, commenting on Rev. 22: 8-9, […]
This Friday I’m defending my dissertation (I’m sure dreaming I was in a plane crash last night had nothing to do with that…). My doctorate has been a wonderful and stressful 6 years in the making (you can see all my academic accompishment here). Needless to say, I’m glad to be finishing and I’m looking […]
Ty Smack Down 1. What is the relationship between practitioners and academia in the missional movement? Outside of missional theology, our approach seems driven by pragmatism undergirded by pseudo-scholarship. In other words, we’ve already come to our conclusion through experience and then we seek to back it up with biblical scholarship. (Is that fair? Is […]