All Posts for April, 2010

In the World

Why does Ergun Caner need to lie?

Apr 30, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

Remember Mike Warnke? The popular evangelical comedian was disgraced in 1991 when Cornerstone magazine refuted his claim to have come to the faith out of a life as a Satanist high priest.

Blogging Toward Sunday

No devil in the details

Acts 11:1-18; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35

Apr 26, 2010 by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

Learning to read isn’t finished by the time you’re eight and you know how to sound out the words on the page. It’s a practice that grows along with the years.

Blogging Toward Sunday

The third temple

Acts 9:36-43, (7-20); Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30

Apr 19, 2010 by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

Unlike the synoptics, the evangelist John reports a three-year ministry for Jesus, marking his time through the passage of three Passovers. But Jesus also observes three other Jewish feasts in the course of John’s Gospel.

In the World

More on Margaret Miles

Apr 16, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

Parker Williamson is shocked—shocked—that Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education is featuring as its 2010 Sprunt Lecturer “a feminist speaker who favors replacing the cross with a

Blogging Toward Sunday

After failure

Acts 9:1-6, (7-20); Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19

Apr 12, 2010 by James A. Harnish

I live and work with a lot of folks who believe that God has given up on them. They are convinced that their failures are so great that there is no way that God can use them to bring hope or healing to others. Many have lives that are controlled by the memory of some past failure. Many of them throw in the towel and decide that the way life has been is the way it always will be.

In the World

A Jewish Narnia?

Apr 08, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

I’ve never had much use for fantasy literature. I’m aware that some of it is well done. But I prefer to read fiction rooted squarely in the real world. In the evangelical culture in which I grew up, this was sometimes an unpopular view.

Century Blogs

The noisy supper

Apr 07, 2010 by Debra Bendis

This winter I had the opportunity to observe a Caravaggio painting upclose and often: his Supper at Emmaus (1601) was on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from its permanent home in London’s National Gallery. From the Century offices, it was only a few steps across Michigan Avenue to see this vibrant, dramatic painting.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Scars

Acts 5:27-32; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31

Apr 05, 2010 by James A. Harnish

A sentence written by Ernest Hemingway hooked my soul years ago and has never let go. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

Century Blogs

A rare, uncomfortable ritual

Apr 01, 2010 by Celeste Kennel-Shank

Tonight is the one service of the year in which many churches practice footwashing. Others don’t do it at all, despite the fact that after washing Peter's feet Jesus says, "You also ought to wash one another's feet."