Lent: 40 Days of the Sermon on the Mount
John had the great idea recently to read the Sermon on the Mount every day for Lent… Here’s his thoughts: Gandhi read the Sermon on the Mount every day for decades. He said that when he first read it,...
View ArticleLenten Reading: Sermon on the Mount #1
As Chris mentioned in a post yesterday, a group of us are reading the Sermon on the Mount every day for Lent. (We set up a Facebook page, if you’d like to join the conversation.) Throughout the Lenten...
View ArticleLenten Reading: Sermon on the Mount #2
This morning I read just past the end of the Sermon on the Mount, where it says that the crowds were amazed at Jesus’s teaching because, unlike the scribes, Jesus taught as one who had authority. I...
View ArticleJesus Manifesto (and other alternate versions of the SOTM)
When John proposed the idea of reading the Sermon on the Mount every day through Lent, one of the first things that came to my mind was the paraphrase of the SOTM that my friend Ken Oster wrote a...
View ArticleBlessed Are the Poor in Spirit
I was delighted to get a copy of poet Tania Runyan’s collection Simple Weight last week, which fortuitously is structured around the backbone of the Beatitudes. Another collection of Runyan’s poems, A...
View ArticleLenten Reading: A couple of thoughts on the Sermon on the Mount
A couple of thoughts have popped into my mind the last few days as I read and reflected on the SOTM… First, John’s decision to give up his iPhone reminded me of a similar choice by my friend Ragan...
View ArticleLenten Reading: Against Religion
The thing that I have been most struck by as I have read the Sermon on the Mount (SOTM) repeatedly over the last few weeks, is how ambivalent it is toward what we call religion (or even at times, the...
View ArticleWork, Generosity and the Schooling of Desire
Mike Bowling, pastor here at Englewood Christian Church, has been preaching through the 10 commandments this year, spending 3 weeks on each commandment, one looking at the Old Testament context, one...
View Article“Pray Without Ceasing…” [Awkward Christian Signs]
I was talking recently to some friends about the nature of prayer, and what it might mean to pray without ceasing (a topic that might merit some reflection on this blog in the near future), but while...
View ArticleScot McKnight – A Fellowship of Differents [Patheos Book Club]
If you have read Slow Church, and want another book that makes a similar theological case, and one that is wisely attentive to biblical scholarship, A Fellowship of Differents is your book.
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