La frase o hashtag #metoo (yo tambi辿n) se ha hecho viral en las redes sociales en los 炭ltimos d鱈as. No es una frase nueva porque desde hace 10 a単os la activista afroamericana Tarana Burke intent坦 hacerla p炭blica, pero no ha sido sino hasta estos d鱈as que su uso se ha convertido en una tendencia social. La frase indica un reconocimiento p炭blico que una mujer, principalmente y en su gran mayor鱈a aunque tambi辿n incluye hombres, ha sido v鱈ctima de cualquier tipo de acoso sexual o incluso violaci坦n. Ha sido desgarrador leer los innumerables testimonios de personas que han tenido la valent鱈a de contar sus historias y hablar de frente, en muchas ocasiones por primera vez, sobre el abuso que sufrieron ...
I present these thoughts from the perspective of someone who grew up in and is familiar with the academic and spiritual situation on the European continent. My observation is that many of the trends that have eroded a robust Christian influence on European culture are very much active in the Evangelical world of the US in the current situation as well ...
When my father died, I grieved. My father died on a Sunday morning, early. His hospital roommate told us that Dad had spent his last nightthe whole nightpraying softly for his family, person by person, before dying peacefully in the early morning. Even though wed known that he would die soon from bone cancer, and knew that he was eager to be home with the Lord, it was still a shock. It was still too soon. Death is like that: it always surprises us and it interrupts our lives. We stop, and we grieve.
Fifteen years ago in Paris, I had a conversation with a young existentialist who said something as unflattering as it was memorable: Whatever the world does the church does ten years later and worse. My new friend was talking about Christian music, describing a decade lag factor, a slowness to recognize and adapt to cultural changes that, in his estimation, rendered the church musically irrelevant ...
My students in Exegesis In The Gospels (a second-year Greek course) were delighted to discover that (in the words of one news agency) Christian conspiracy theorists have gathered clues that suggest the end of the world is nigh" ...
There is no end of opportunities to be blessed with the teaching and preaching of Gods word. Great preachers can be heard on the radio. Podcasts can be automatically downloaded to our phones or iPads. The teaching of Gods word is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on cable television networks. Christian bookstores are full of books by the greatest authors of our day. Electronic books can be carried with us everywhere with ease. Churches have program after program geared toward teaching Gods word, not to mention a worship service every week, which includes a Bible-based sermon. From the cradle to the grave, opportunities abound ...
This summer I had the privilege of attending Acton University. This week-long meeting is hosted by the Acton Institute, a think-tank whose mission is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles. Common themes at Acton are religious liberty, economic liberty, and natural law. Much like C.S. Lewis mere christianity, Acton seeks to promote a civil society advanced on natural law reasoning. At Acton one encounters philosophers, economists, entrepreneurs, theologians, biblical scholars, ethicists, and aid workers from around the world ...
La compasi坦n debe ser sentimiento esencial de aquellos que se dicen seguidores de Jesucristo. La palabra compasi坦n significa sufrir juntos y es un sentimiento que se manifiesta al percibir y comprender el sufrimiento de los dem叩s y, por lo tanto, produce el deseo de aliviar, reducir o eliminar este sufrimiento. Al ver las noticias, caminar por las calles o simplemente al conversar con personas a nuestro alrededor es f叩cil darse cuenta que muchas personas est叩n sufriendo por diferentes circunstancias. La tendencia natural y tristemente com炭n incluso en muchos de aquellos que se dicen cristianos es juzgar a los dem叩s y asumir que sus circunstancias negativas son consecuencia de sus malas decisiones. Es f叩cil amar a los que nos aman y preocuparnos por aquellos que son cercanos a nosotros, pero una marca central de Jes炭s y sus seguidores debe ser amar y tener compasi坦n por todos sin importar quienes son o qu辿 han hecho ...
I had the occasion to watch a six-part DVD series called PovertyCure, produced by the Acton Institute. It is indeed an eye-opening series that Id encourage you to watch. Each part is less than 30 minutes long and is available in the 晩晩当際際夊消消夊2023 Library (BV4647 .P6 P68 2012 DVD). It challenges the effectiveness of the traditional model of helping the poor through foreign aid in regions where there is wide-spread poverty and the economy is largely depressed. This aid can come in the form of government sponsored foreign aid, through global agencies such as the IMF or World Bank, and even from NGOs (both secular and Christian). By the end of the series, I think most would at least pause to consider if aid (as a handout) helps to alleviate poverty, or whether it actually exacerbates the problem ...
En este a単o se celebra alrededor del mundo los 500 a単os del inicio de lo que se conoce como La Reforma protestante. El 31 de octubre de 1517 el monje agustino Mart鱈n Lutero clav坦 en la puerta de la Iglesia del Castillo en Wittenberg en Alemania 95 tesis en las que criticaba abiertamente las ventas de indulgencias de la iglesia cat坦lica romana. Lutero escogi坦 ese d鱈a deliberadamente ya que era la v鱈spera del D鱈a de Todos los Santos y tanto la facultad de la universidad como muchos fieles asist鱈an a la iglesia. Lutero inicialmente no ten鱈a la intenci坦n de romper con la iglesia romana sino enfatizar la supremac鱈a del evangelio de Cristo basada en su simplicidad y a la vez en su gran profundidad ...
I just finished reading Owen Strachans book, Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement. He has some good words for how to keep evangelical universities, well evangelical. These three paragraphs are worth the three minutes it will take you to read them ...
Recently I was in discussion with a friend who was concerned about the tendency of some Christians to spiritualize death and dying by appeal to the afterlife. To spiritualize death and dying is to utilize spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with unwanted feelings over the loss of a loved one. I just try to think of how happy she is with Jesus. When we see him again in heaven it will seem like no time has passed. I am just glad shes finally at rest in Jesus arms. To spiritualize death and dying in these and other ways is a defense mechanism. It is a way to defend against experiencing some painful part of reality as it actually is ...
Cada vez estoy m叩s convencido que ser un trabajador obsesivo es la adicci坦n m叩s com炭n entre las personas que est叩n en el ministerio cristiano. Evidentemente esta condici坦n se presenta entre todas las personas sin importar su ocupaci坦n o religiosidad. De hecho en ingl辿s el t辿rmino workaholic ya forma parte del vocabulario com炭n ya que representa una realidad cada vez m叩s presente en nuestras sociedades. Pero es f叩cil convertirse en un trabajador obsesivo y disfrazar esta situaci坦n con piedad y buenas intenciones. De la misma manera es muy atractivo sumergirse en el trabajo y echarle la culpa a Dios o a la obra de Dios como excusa por esta situaci坦n ...
Job interviews are a nerve-wracking ordeal. The feeling of being out of control regarding ones future leads to subservient postures in relationships. This was the situation the Moabite, Ruth, found herself in after returning with her mother in-law to Bethlehem (Ruth 1). However, in this amazing Biblical narrative is a posture of grace-seeking that is reminiscent of our seeking God; it is the God-action of finding favor in others that we should model in our working relationships ...
Where does inspiration come from? Where does the motivation to use ones gifts and passions to make a difference begin? Jane Goodall said, What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Are we the source of action or does that spark come from something else? I would like to propose God is the beginning of movements that bring change; history is the record of mankinds response to the divine prompting ...
One summer, I drove from my parents home in New Jersey to where I was working in Minnesota. Somewhere in Indiana, I saw the all too familiar flashing lights of a state trooper. I was speeding, and I knew it. I was going sixty-eight in a fifty-five zone. I had a pit in my stomach. I hated the fact that I was caught. Not only does the speeding ticket cost money, but my ego took a hit as well. I was resentful. I dont like being in the wrong. More than that, I hate being held accountable when I am wrong ...
Kenneth Berding (Professor of New Testament at Talbot School of Theology) recently wrote and published The Apostolic Fathers: A Narrative Introduction. We wanted to learn more about this book, so we had Ken respond to some questions ...
T炭 nunca me dices que me amas, una esposa triste se quejaba con su esposo; a lo que 辿ste respondi坦: yo te dije que te amaba el d鱈a en que nos casamos y no he cambiado de opini坦n, as鱈 que, no veo la raz坦n de estarlo repitiendo." Nos podemos sonre鱈r con la historia anterior. Sin embargo, estoy convencido de que muchos esposos no comprenden lo importante que es amar a sus esposas y c坦mo demostrarles ese amor. El romanticismo no es solamente un asunto de mujeres sino que deber鱈a ser la prioridad de los maridos ...
The account of humanitys creation in the image of God in Genesis 1:26-28, is specifically crafted to lead the reader to conclude that Gods intended outcome, his purpose, for creating humanity in his image, was to create flourishing communities, not just flourishing individuals. The cultural or creation mandate as it has been calledGods command to be fruitful, multiply, fill and subdue the earth, and to rule over the living things on the earthis rightly seen as a command to fulfill Gods intention. Humanity is to fill the earth and bring about flourishing ...
Is the church here to help me to grow in Christ as an individual? Or has God put me here to help the church grow both qualitatively and quantitatively? The easy answer is Both! And thats not completely wrong. But the early Christians clearly prioritized the health and growth of Gods community over the goals and desires of individual believers. This group-first mentality is not only characterized the early church, it characterized family life throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. This is why families arranged marriages. The goal of marriage in the ancient world was the not relational satisfaction of the individuals involved. It was the honor and ongoing viability of the two families who brokered the marriage. The group in this case the family came first ...
The recent welcome of Evangelical radio apologist, The Bible Answer Man Hank Hanegraaff, into the Greek Orthodox Church has understandably raised more than eyebrows. Questions about the differences between Protestants and Orthodox have been coming my way in the aftermath, so I want to offer to Good Book Blog readers an essay I wrote for Talbots Sundoulos magazine back in 2008. In it youll find some general characteristics of the Orthodox denomination as well as key points of difference with Protestantssome of which converts such as Hank Hanegraaff would typically need to renounce as they formally enter Orthodoxy ...
The Bible insists that everything exists for Jesus. He is the Telos, the Goal, the Final Point where all lines converge. But isnt that such a strange and invisible conclusion? Doesnt such a view make Christianity fundamentally anti-science?
When we say He is risen. He is risen indeed! we are not merely stating a remarkable historical fact, not merely expressing our shared doctrine, not merely standing in line with a long tradition of hope. We are doing all of that. But we are doing more. We are joining the great protest chant against all the dehumanization, death, and decay of the present age and heralding, here and now, the subversive breaking in of the glorious age to come in the resurrected Jesus.
Israel cried out, Give us a king! (1 Samuel 8:6). Against his will, God gave his people what they wanted. A real superstar. Saul was the handsomest and tallest man around (9:2). That didnt work out very well, did it? It never does ...
In our day, wherever it is found, the fruits of intellectual inquiry grow from the conviction that there is such a thing as truth out there to discover. Take an axe to the existence of truth and you no longer have education, you have propaganda. Ideologies that deny the very possibility of truth can be found in many (thankfully, not all) fields of education. In the quip of postmodern philosopher, Richard Rorty, truth is simply a matter of whatever your colleagues will let you get away with saying. With no truth to seek and discover, we are left with only social constructs to endlessly dream up and deconstruct. In the words of one lamenting Harvard graduate, The freedom of our day is the freedom to devote ourselves to any values we please, on the mere condition that we do not believe them to be true." When the very idea of truth is considered so out-of-fashion, schools gradually turn from the pursuit of knowledge to the business of data transfer, indoctrination, and diploma-printing ...
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