Theology is not usually home to imagination and creativity. Indeed, the sober vocation of the theologian looks on creativity as a temptation, the lure of novelty as a dangerous seduction. The fuel of theology is not the imagination but the intellect. It traffics not in metaphors but propositions, those terse building blocks of arguments and…
I’m not a digital native, as they say, so I’m always learning to catch up to technology: texting still gives me fits; I’m not on Facebook (“MyFace” in 30-Rock-speak); and I have no idea how Twitter works, or what it’s for. But it was cool to discover that the opening chapter of The Devil Reads…
I’m looking forward to two new releases in May: Josh Ritter’s next album, So Runs the World Away, will debut on May 4. And then The National, of Boxer fame, will release their new album High Violet on May 11. But in a kind of already/not yet anticipation, right now you can listen to both…
In Sunday’s Grand Rapids Press, the editor Paul M. Keep responded to my earlier letter about their coverage of a tea party event. As you may recall, I called into question their grand claims about attendance at the event given the complete lack of any evidence to substantiate those claims. In response to my letter,…
Somehow the Grand Rapids Press managed to completely garble my letter to the editor regarding their coverage of a recent “Tea Party” event. For the record, I here provide the my correct text of my letter, and have pasted the photo that appeared with the print version of the story in last Sunday’s paper. The…
Eerdmans has just rolled out the announcement for a new venture: the “Pentecostal Manifestos” series which I’m co-editing with my good friend, Amos Yong. This will be a series of scholarly books from a pentecostal/charismatic perspective, speaking into wider conversations in theology and Christian scholarship. You can see a bit about the series here. And…