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Lent

My Lenten journal article in Christian Reflection

Baylor University’s Center For Christian Ethics just released its quarterly publication, Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics. I wrote an article for the journal on a reflection for Palm Sunday: “Lessons from a Donkey”. Please give it a read here. You can check out the whole journal here.

crHighlights include:

“Remembering Our Dust,” by Elizabeth Evans Hagan

“Lent as a Season of Responsive Fasting,” by Scot McKnight

“The Early History of Lent” by Nicholas V. Russo

“Walking the Walk (of the Stations of the Cross),” by Carmen Acevedo Butcher

Thanks to my friend Bill Shiell for the opportunity.

Rob Bell

Lets Freak out about Rob Bell!

Run for the hills! Rob Bell is heretical! Ahhhhh!!!

If you have not followed the story, famed pastor, speaker, author, and Nooma guru has a new book coming out entitled, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. A few chapters were released to a few bloggers and writers.

Those who have read the incomplete manuscript resolve that Rob Bell is a heretic  and his career is over. The claims have ranged from he is an Universalist or he is the devil.

Here is the video that is causing the stir

Let’s all freak out about Rob Bell!

Folks, Bell has always been on the edge of Christianity and that is a good thing.  More on that later. I have not read the book or seen the pre-released chapters, but let’s not jump to conclusions like some other big time Christian figures, authors, and pastors.  Check out their comments: Continue Reading…

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