Through a Glass Darkly

An excellent video from NT Wright on the way in which a first century Jewish reader likely would have “heard” the Genesis 1-3 stories.

This is a great video from Os Guiness about the missional and praxiological importance of finding peace between Christian faith and the natural sciences.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me;
You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And your right hand will save me.
The LORD will accomplish what concerns me;
Your lovinkindness, O LORD, is everlasting;
Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

– Ps. 138

My post on Morality and the Law of Contract is up at Jesus Creed. Check it out.

I have a post up on Jesus Creed about “The Problem with Paleo-Orthodoxy.” Check it out.

Os Guiness on how the North American culture wars have fueled the unnecessary rift between Christian faith and science. Excellent.

Nicholas Adams, writing on the Creed in the Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics:

The Creed is a prayer that ends with ‘Amen.’ This is good news because it frees Christians from the prison of thinking it a mere bold declaration. . . . It is the poetry of lives, rather than the clarity of statements, that shows how tradition and reasoning are woven together in the Trinitarian, prayerful recitation of the Creed. Such lives, invited to a world we did not make, are made into signs. No philosophical system, and no brilliant theory of the relationship between tradition and reasoning, can replace the embodied poetry that living signs, saints, are called to be in the world. The Creed, as an uttered part of this embodiment, simultaneously proclamation and prayer, is part of the Eucharist, and that means it is not only about speech and talk; it is an occasion in which we are shown how to share food, and, in the breaking of bread, are given a foretaste of things to come, and taught how to transform the world.

Amen again.

My next post on “Law” is up at Jesus Creed:  Mission, Accommodation, and the Rule of Law.  Check it out.

Here’s my latest ambient / experimental music composition, Chasing Leviathan.