Weekly Meanderings

I had the pleasure of reading some of David Scholer’s work on women in the church in my research for an exegesis paper on 1 Timothy 2. His work played an appreciable part in helping me form and articulate to myself what I actually believed in this area, and I am grateful to him for that. I never met him, but even his writings exuded warmth and graciousness.

I found it interesting that the Amish population in the U.S. has almost doubled in 16 years and happy to see an alternative Christian lifestyle thriving. That’s a different kind of diversity than what we usually hear about.
I recently read a good book about the Schwartzentruber Amish of northern Ohio called Plain Secrets. Has anyone else read it?
For those on the blog who “know” me, I’ve been out of circulation recently because of a move to rural southern Ohio. I’m am glad to be settled enough to be able to participate in JC again.

Diane,
Welcome back.
I found it interesting that the article claims that 4 of 5 children remain in the Amish community. A higher retention rate than evangelical churches seem to claim.

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Scot McKnight is a widely-recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University (Chicago, Illinois). A popular and witty speaker, Dr. McKnight has given interviews on radios across the nation, has appeared on television, and is regularly asked to speak in local churches and educational events throughout the USA and in Denmark and South Africa. Dr. McKnight obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham (1986).

Scot McKnight is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Society for New Testament Studies. He is the author of more than thirty books, including the award-winning The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paraclete, 2004), which won the Christianity Today book of the year for Christian Living. Recent books include Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (Paraclete, 2005), The Story of the Christ (Baker, 2006), Praying with the Church (Paraclete, 2006), and The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus (Paraclete, 2007). A recent book, A Community called Atonement (Abingdon, 2007), has been nominated for the Grawameyer Award. He broadened his Jesus Creed project in writing a daily devotional: 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed (Paraclete, 2008). His studies in conversion were expanded with his newest book, Finding Faith, Losing Faith (Baylor, 2008), a book he co-authored with his former student Hauna Ondrey. His most recent books are The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible (Zondervan, 2008) and Fasting (Thomas Nelson, 2009).

Forthcoming books include a commentary on James (Eerdmans, 2010). He is presently researching “gospel” in the earliest Christian communities.

Other books include Who Do My Opponents Say I am? (co-edited with Joseph Modica), Jesus and His Death (Baylor, 2005), A Light among the Gentiles (Fortress, 1992), A New Vision for Israel (Eerdmans, 1999), Turning to Jesus (Westminster John Knox, 2002), Galatians (Zondervan, 1993) and 1 Peter (Zondervan, 1996), Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels (Baker, 1988), and he is a co-editor with J.B. Green and I.H. Marshall of the award-winning The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (IVP, 1992) as well as the co-editor, with J.D.G. Dunn, of The Historical Jesus in Current Study (Eisenbraun’s, 2005). He regularly contributes chapter length studies to dictionaries, encyclopedias, books and articles for magazines and online webzines. McKnight’s books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese.

McKnight’s award-winning blog, Jesus Creed, has been rated by Technorati.com as the #1 site for Emerging Church and continues to increase in readership.

Scot McKnight was elected into the Hall of Honor at Cornerstone University in honor of his basketball accomplishments during his college career. He and his wife, Kristen, live in Libertyville, Illinois. They enjoy traveling, long walks, gardening, and cooking. They have two adult children, Laura (married to Mark Barringer) and Lukas (married to Annika Nelson), and one grandchild: Aksel Donovan Nelson McKnight.

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Bio: Scot McKnight

Forthcoming books include a commentary on James (Eerdmans, 2010). He is presently researching “gospel” in the earliest Christian communities.

McKnight’s award-winning blog, Jesus Creed, has been rated by Technorati.com as the #1 site for Emerging Church and continues to increase in readership.

Comments read comments(8)

Mike Bird

posted August 30, 2008 at 3:47 am

Scot,
I think there is a mistake in the Olympic photo at the bottom. Surely the Australian flag should be in the middle!

Tom Smith

posted August 30, 2008 at 4:55 am

Thanks for your links Scot. I appreciate it – and also for keeping a South African presence on your blog!

Katherine

posted August 30, 2008 at 6:49 am

Diane

posted August 30, 2008 at 8:35 am

RJS

posted August 30, 2008 at 9:00 am

posted August 30, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Thanks RSJ,
I don’t know much about the Amish, but Plain Secrets illustrated that it can be hard to leave their culture for ours, especially with only an eighth-grade education.

Michael W. Kruse

posted August 31, 2008 at 7:02 am

Thanks for the link.

Doug Allen

posted August 31, 2008 at 7:33 pm

Thanks for the good links, Scot. A wonderful biking accomplishment, an article on teaching biology that reminds me of some of my teacher friends and associates in Colorado, and political links that can be positive without putting any one down.

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