Christianity Today has a wonderful interview N. T. Wright (one of my favorite New Testament scholars): Mere Mission: N.T. Wright talks about how to present the gospel in a postmodern world. Be sure to check out his website as well, which can be found to the right under “Websites.” Here is my favorite quote from the interview:
Because I’ve done all that historical work, my view of the gospel and how it works out in the real world has been deepened and enriched in all kinds of ways that I would never have guessed 25 years ago when I was starting out writing about Jesus. So in Simply Christian there’s a lot about justice, what it means to be human in the mandate to work, the putting to rights of God’s world, generating beauty, alleviating poverty, working with ecology. Thirty years ago I would have said those were secondary issues.
There’s an old evangelical saying, “If he’s not Lord of all, he’s not Lord at all.” That was always applied personally and pietistically. I want to say exactly the same thing but apply it to the world. We’re talking about Jesus as the Lord of the world—not the Lord of people’s private spiritual interiority only, but of what they do with their money, with their homes, with the wealth of nations, and with the planet.
On Christians for Biblical Equality’s The Scroll, Chelsea has a great series on the Trinity. There is a damaging new trend in some theological camps that places God the Son in eternal subordination to God the Father, so they can claim to have a biblical stance on keeping women subordinated under men. Chelsea does a great job of showing how this fallacy is not biblical, and gives a very good biblical view of the Trinity as co-equal and interdependent: Part One, Part Two, Part Three.
Finally on God’s Politics, Ryan Beiler catches something about Saddam Hussein’s conviction and execution that no other news outlet (including previous God’s Politics posts) have reported: Saddam Hussein was one of our allies in 1982 when he killed 148 people in the town of Dujali—the crime of which he was convicted.
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“Saddam Hussein was one of our allies in 1982 when he killed 148 people in the town of Dujali—the crime of which he was convicted.”
amazing isn’t it?