From the monthly archives:

June 2009

love is an orientation

by john on 6/16/2009 · 2 comments

in books

In recent years, I’ve had the opportunity to develop friendships with three different men who were trying to navigate the tension between what it meant to be gay and Christian. Each was at a different place in his story when I first got befriended him, but each story had one thing in common…living between the [...]

letting the text have a voice

by john on 6/10/2009 · 0 comments

in midrash

We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors, to be reminded where it has come from and where it is going to, and hence what our own part within it ought to be. — NT Wright Our Sunday gatherings for Austin [...]

jesus, interrupted

by john on 6/3/2009 · 1 comment

in books

Through ViralBloggers.com I was given an opportunity to review Jesus, Interrupted by Bart Erhman. (I promise this blog isn’t going to be reduced to an outlet for book reviews even if it’s looked like that lately!) For those unfamiliar with Ehrman, he has an interesting background. A former evangelical, he was educated at Moody, Wheaton, [...]