The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own [...]

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Today is Reformation Day, as well as Halloween.  It’s today that the Protestant Churches celebrate the beginning of the Reformation.
On this day in 1517, Martin Luther posted a proposal at the doors of a church in Wittenberg, Germany to debate the doctrine and practice of indulgences. This proposal is popularly known as the 95 Theses, [...]

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I recently ordered several books that I think will help me understand poverty in the urban setting. For a while now I’ve been formulating my thoughts on poverty and human dignity. In particular I’m going to look at the Broken Windows Theory and how it potentially applies to the individual and those in [...]

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Scot McKnight’s talk last weekend at Wesminster Theological Seminary is now available (PDF from Mark at Sacred Journey). You can read Scot’s post on the conference here.
From Scot’s blog:
I think it is only honest to say that a few faculty, who have written against emerging/emergent, protested the event by not attending the sessions — [...]

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