Can you imagine teaching economics and then, one day, while walking to your university classroom, you realize that everything you are teaching is making zero impact on the community right around you? What do you do? You find out what the people really need and do it. Such is the success story regarding the micro-loan […]
The Apostle John wrote that, no one has ever seen God. These words immediately invite us to humbly pause and to examine ourselves for evidences of doctrinal/religious arrogance.
John also said, everyone who loves…knows God. Again, there is a need for self-examination. First, do we actually love? If not, regardless of what we think we know, […]
In proverbial form, Rollins begins chapter four by describing Jesus both as a subversive prophet who signaled the end of all religious movements while simultaneously being the catalyst for a new religious movement.  Christianity was to be religion with a unique difference. Our religious tradition, writes Rollins, testifies to God and is inspired by God, […]
In Rollin’s third chapter he pursues a way of approaching God that sets aside the naive notion that we can actually speak of God and counters the defeatist idea of humanists who extinguish all belief in God. When believers come to realize (unlikely, of course) that our most cherished beliefs are mere interpretations of reality and that […]
Rollins reminds us that the Pharisees of Jesus’ time refused to reconsider their understanding of God, even in the very presence of God. They clung to their interpretation of the Messiah with a misguided sense of integrity (i.e. conceptual idolatry) that effectively led them to reject the Unexpected.
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The emergent conversation intentionally invites God to speak […]
In the first chapter of Peter Rollin’s book, How (not) to Speak of God, he pursues the larger emerging church conversation almost as an apologist/apostle. His intention is disarmingly unusual. He does not offer a different set of answers to common theological questions, but offers instead a different way of understanding the answers […]
