Book of Genesis now in Comic Book form…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pope signs papal declaration for Roman Catholic Church to offer oversight to “entire [Anglican] congregations”

This is a massively significant move on behalf of the pope, especially for “Anglo-Catholics” in the new structures that have sprung up in response to the theological revisionism within the Episcopal Church, and other “progressive” Anglican bodies worldwide.  It will be interesting to see what happens…

Two excerpts from the article:

October 20, 2009, will go down in history as a turning point in Catholic-Anglican relations.

This new canonical structure will be open to all in the Anglican Communion (currently 77 million strong), including the Episcopal Church in the United States (approximately 2.2 million)

HT: StandFirm

Update:  USATODAY article-more info than the article above.

The Future of N. American Anglicanism

Next week, I have the great privilege and honor to represent faithful Anglican churches throughout the Rocky Mountain Network of the Anglican Mission in the Americas as I will be attending the formation of the new Anglican Church in North America by being a lay delegate to the provincial assembly.  This is a nothing less than a highly significant historic event and I am unable to describe how excited I am to be a part of what God is doing in this movement.  I was at a conference this past week and got to talk to Todd Hunter (who was elected a “missionary bishop” this past Saturday-he has a vision to plant 200 churches on the West Coast), church planters, and other faithful Anglican priests including the pastor of Christ Church Plano, Fr. David Roseberry.  We will see what part I might be able to play in this movement as my wife and I are looking at opportunities in both the academy and in church planting.  Please pray for us as we seek to be participate in the building of God’s Kingdom.

Blessings!

Go here to see the ACNA website.

Forthcoming Commentaries Website…

Check this out...it provides future Biblical commentaries categorized by book or commentary series.  This is truly a site for nerdy commentar-o-philes!

N.T. Wright, Anthony Flew, & Gary Habermas on the Resurrection

A discussion you cannot miss…go here!

HT: Ben Witherington

Three recent discussions on Apostasy & Perseverance

Click on the following links and Enjoy!

Michael F. Bird at Euangelion

Steve Duby at Theologia Viatorum

Craig Blomberg: New Testament Musings

Will There Be Sex in Heaven?

For those of us who are honest enough to admit that we have wondered if there will be sex in heaven, well now we don’t have to wonder anymore.  Well, maybe I am being too generous.  However, Peter Kreeft, professor of Philosophy at Boston College, has written an academic article dealing with a usually non-academic issue…SEX.  I find his article intriguing and well thought out.  To download this article go here.

New Blog: Theologia Viatorum

My friend Steve Duby has begun to blog…blog world, are you ready? If you are at all interested in theology you must check out his site. Steve and I have had a number of classes together and he is a first-rate thinker who has read widely and manages to stay very humble in engagement with others. Also, Steve plans to do a PhD in theology somewhere in the UK in the near future, so I am sure that he would appreciate your engagement to help him refine his thoughts on particular issues. You will only be intrigued and better off for reading anything he has to say! To participate in his blogging ruminations go HERE.

Update:  Two other blogs worth noting are

1) TheMindonFire -thought provoking blog by a very capable thinker

2) friendlyfire-blog of a few guys that I went to college with at SEBC

The (Gay) Marriage debate…

D. C. Cramer has a thoughtful proposal concerning how both the Church and State could approach the concept/institution of marriage.  I think his idea is a good one!  Simply put, it boils down to letting the Church handle marriages and the State manage civil unions.  Follow the link above to engage in this dialogue.

N.T. Wright Interprets Humpty Dumpty (a.k.a. Hilarious!)

This is awesome…I came across it on standfirminfaith.com

Tom Wright reads Humpty Dumpty (In the Spirit of Bultmann Reads Mother Goose)

Written in Durham Cathedral, dedicated to Rowan Williams.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Clearly the writer alludes to the Temple. This echoes other lines in early 2nd nursery literature, such as Mother Hubbard’s cupboard (the “storehouse” of the Temple) and the bone (resurrection life) which she sought for her dog (“Gentiles”). “But when she got there, the cupboard was bare and the poor little doggie had none.” The temple had nothing to offer the Gentiles, and they thus remained in their state of Adamic sin and decay. So here, too, one suspects the Temple and its “wall” are bankrupt. The next line, then, does not surprise:

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

Again, this is patently an echo of the Temple’s destruction, doubtless with the intent of leading the reader to ponder the eschatological recreation of the Temple. Since Humpty stands for the Temple, he seems to be sharing in the divine identity, functioning as the locus of God’s presence, not outside, but within creation. Of course, this fall is an exile of sorts, a removal from the locus of God’s presence. The tension is palpable: how will humpty’s story not turn out dumpty? In other words, this line presupposes what I have called elsewhere the great metanarrative of humpty, not least the promise of resurrection.

But all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put humpty together again.

So the Temple will be built again, but not by human hands. Many have undertaken to suggest that this passage runs counter to a belief in resurrection. But this atomistic reading of the text lacks imagination. Of course, it is the king himself who will put humpty together again, so that the metanarrative will not fail. After all, Humpty is the place where he is resident with his creation. But the failure to recreate Humpty does not negate all human effort for creation, which should be done in light of the proleptic nature of the king’s restoration of humpty and all creation.