Reading with Fitch and Holsclaw
Recently I committed to review several books for TheOoze.com. I intended to get about four books over the course of a year. I received Pete Gall’s My Beautiful Idol and wrote a couple of posts. Not...
View ArticleInclusive Reading, Better Reading
Sitting in a room full of pastor/preacher types exposed again the necessity of variety. At a poignant moment in our conversations one astute observer reminded us all we were engaged in a hegemonic...
View ArticleWatchmen
Saturday I took my two sons – yes I can count them both even if one will not be offical for a few weeks – to see Watchmen. For quite some time in the aftermath of the viewing I thought to myself, “Odd....
View ArticleSix Years Later . . . The Early Conspirator
To say six years lapsed in a town our size without ever crossing Lyle’s path would be inaccurate. School events always put us in proximity. I am sure we chatted here and there. Late in the summer of...
View ArticleFriday Photo – Multiple Reflections
Ryan N called me Monday evening. “Have you read Rob Bell’s new book?” I had just finished it a few days earlier. But, I have been reading the wildly divergent opinions about the book since “before” the...
View ArticleRob Bell – Reading is Fundamental
In the “Video of the Week” widget to the right is a Bell clip I listened to on Scot McKnight’s blog, Jesus Creed. Listen to the end. My thoughts from the beginning. And, I did read the book. Copyright...
View ArticleLearning from the Wilsons or, Scanning Is Different from Reading
I am bracing myself. Jeff notified me SBC Voices would be running another guest post derived from my series, Ruled Out of Order. The stand alone post carries the title, Needed: Prophets Not Protectors....
View ArticleRadical Faithfulness
During Holy Week Barry tweeted, I’m thinking this Maundy Thursday foot-washing business is a distraction-the point isn’t washing feet-that was a cultural signifier-ours is? — barry taylor (@BarryT256)...
View ArticleBasking
Technology is scant. Cell phone service is rare. The noise of the grand boys playing is constant. Days of cool rain refreshing. Reading on the very large front porch listening to the birds play in the...
View ArticleSalt In the Wound or, Evidence That Reading Is a Lost Art
If reading is fundamental, interpretation is impossible without it. When an interpretation is offered apart from reading a text the interpreter is rupturing his or her own ideology. Last week I was...
View ArticleThe Rapture Betrays the Incarnation: An Interview with Jeffrey C. Pugh
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief. “There’s too much confusion I can’t get no relief . . ..” Learning to read the Bible as a child and a young adolescent meant always...
View ArticleThat Time One of My Interviewees Became a Reader’s Choice Finalist – Go Vote...
Almost one year ago I took a different direction with my podcast. Up to that point I had offered some reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary. Our congregation and other Baptists, even Southern...
View ArticleReceiving Dante: An Interview with Nathan P. Gilmour of The Christian...
When asked what book or books have left an impression on me I often refer to a book given as a gift. Jimmy gave me a copy of The Divine Conspiracy in the late 1990’s. To this day the idea of...
View ArticleReading with Fitch and Holsclaw
Recently I committed to review several books for TheOoze.com. I intended to get about four books over the course of a year. I received Pete Gall’s My Beautiful Idol and wrote a couple of posts. Not...
View ArticleInclusive Reading, Better Reading
Sitting in a room full of pastor/preacher types exposed again the necessity of variety. At a poignant moment in our conversations one astute observer reminded us all we were engaged in a hegemonic...
View ArticleWatchmen
Saturday I took my two sons – yes I can count them both even if one will not be offical for a few weeks – to see Watchmen. For quite some time in the aftermath of the viewing I thought to myself, “Odd....
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