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How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It by J.P. Moreland Roger over at the A-Team Blog has posted on J.P. Moreland’s recent paper on evangelical over-commitment to the bible. Roger states firmly, “The vast majority of Christians desperately need to be more committed to the Bible, not less.” [...]
Conversations outside of the Soularize event usually make the conference for me. Today, I was just lounging in the hot tub at the hotel, and one of our keynote speakers, Rita Brock, stepped in. We had a great conversation which was all over the place from the Samaritans to the early church to fundamentalists hating [...]
Well, I did something I rarely do… go to a worship service. I’m still much more the house church gather together share pray worship on a small scale sort of guy, but I really enjoyed the worship and was pleasantly surprised to find that Brennan stayed over from the conference and was the speaker this [...]
One of my favorite things about Soularize is the variety of opinion that flows from not only attenders of the conference but the workshop leaders and keynote speakers. I just sat in a workshop with Rita Brock, and it’s fascinating to hear a coherent theology of the cross without atonement theology. I’m still more of [...]
I had the pleasure of meeting Frank Viola at Soularize and today I ran the webcam for his workshop which streamed via the FeedLive service. Frank spoke about a “radical ecclesiology” which looks to the early church for guidance in church structure. Frank has done a wealth of research, and though I haven’t read all [...]
“Heaven is important, but it’s not the end of the world” – N.T. Wright at Soularize in the Bahamas, October 25, 2007 Such a great quote, I had to share it right away. N.T. spoke quite a bit about heaven not being “up there” in a space in our physical universe and that salvation is [...]
Soularize kicked off with a visit to a private island. Snorkeling, complimentary wine and lemonade, and a lot of amazing conversation. One of the most important things about Soularize is that we don’t start off with the keynotes and workshops. Instead, we hang out and put faces and stories behind the ideas. It is much [...]
I’ve been loosely following Scott McKnight’s recent thoughts on a book about whether sexual orientation can be changed or not. In my opinion, it’s getting more and more interesting: Ex-Gays 4: “ The subject of Jones and Yarhouse’s Ex-Gays?, whether or not there is evidence that those with homosexual orientation can change that orientation, is [...]
Awhile back, I started a proposal on a book about Jesus. Like that’s never been done before… Well, everyone feels their perspective is unique (unless of course philosophically you believe no one’s perspective is truly unique), and I aspired to write a “Christology for the church, by the church, and in the church.” What I [...]
I’ve had a dream for a long time of making short films based on parables… or at least making films that are parables about biblical truths. I have the first two of those films ready to edit! I produced and directed one film over the weekend and on Monday a friend of mine directed the [...]