My next post on Law is up at Jesus Creed. This one starts to wrestle with a vexing question. For those of you with Reformed leanings, stop by and let me know what you think.
I’m teaching a course at my church this winter on “Old Testament Ethics: Principles of Living for the People of God.” Here is the website for the course, which contains links to the Powerpoint slides and other supplemental material. Feel free to use any of the materials under a Creative Commons Attribution license if you find them helpful.
My next post on “Law” is up at the Jesus Creed: Red State, Blue State, Law and Mission.
This post by George Hunsinger I think is excellent.
This is an excellent video from N.T. Wright. I think he’s right that faithful readings of the text must try to disentangle the text from our prior cultural and political assumptions and battles.
My next post is up at Jesus Creed: Seven Theses on a Missional Approach to Law.
I’m at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in New Orleans. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a work-in-progress on “Law, Neurobiology, and the Human Soul” at the Law Professors Christian Fellowship Conference on Christian Legal Thought, which runs concurrently with the AALS. There should be some interesting panels and a chance to connect with some friends. I’m looking forward to it.
Yesterday morning I spent some time thinking an praying about the coming new year. I felt refreshed and encouraged about some things I hope to be able to do and enjoy in 2010. After celebrating in the evening with our neighbors, a gaggle of kids came by to sleep over our house. I went to sleep at about 12:30 a.m., feeling cozy.
At around 2:00 a.m., my eleven-year-old son woke me up, breathlessly explaining that his friend who was sleeping over felt sick. I trundled down to the basement family room, and there it was: chunky, pungent projectile vomit on the couch, the beanbag chairs, the Xbox remote, the kid’s clothing. Apparently, staying up till all hours playing video games while gorging on nachos and soda after eating platefuls of cocktail weenies and dip does not sit well with the stomachs of some 11-year-old boys. Did you know that if a kid has carrots for dinner, they still are recognizable as carrots when they come back out the same end six hours later?
But 2:45 a.m. or so I had everything cleaned up, nearly losing my own cookies several times in the process. The poor kid’s dad picked him up and I headed back up to bed.
Ah yes. It’s going to be a very good year!