Daily Prayers:
- A. Book of Common Prayer
- A. Book of Common Prayer 2
- A. Divine Hours
- A. Evening Prayer (Anglican)
- A. Morning Prayer (Anglican)
- Celtic Prayer
- Creeds of Christendom
- Eastern Orthodox Prayers
- Lectionary
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Missio Dei
Emerging Movement:
- Andrew Jones
- Andrew Perriman
- Anthony Stiff
- Art Boulet
- Bob Robinson
- Br. Maynard
- Dan Kimball
- David Fitch
- Dogwood Abbey
- Ecclesia Network
- Emerging Women
- Eugene Cho
- Henrik Holmgaard
- Jamie Arpin-Ricci
- Jazz Theologian
- John Frye
- John Lagrou
- Jonny Baker
- JR Briggs
- Leonard Hjamarlson
- LeRon Shults
- Lukas McKnight
- Peggy Brown
- Sivin Kit
- Stephen Shields
- Steve McCoy
- Steve Taylor
- Tamara Buchan
- The Practicing Church
- Tim Miekley
- Todd Hiestand
- Tom Smith (RSA)
- Tony Jones
Other sites I frequent:
- Allan Bevere
- Andy Rowell
- Attie Nel
- Barna
- Brad Boydston
- Chris Ridgeway
- CC Blogs
- Don Johnson
- Ed Gilbreath
- Erika Haub (Carney)
- Faith Blogging
- Falsani
- Fr. Rob
- Hummers
- iMonk
- James McGrath
- Jim Martin
- John Stackhouse
- JR Woodward
- Karen Spears Zacharias
- Laura Barringer
- LaVonne Neff
- LeaderFOCUS
- LL Barkat
- Luke/Annika
- Mark Galli
- Mark Roberts
- Michael Kruse
- Nexus
- Owen Youngman
- Ted Gossard
- Tom Wright
Recommended Online Readings:
Scholarly Books I’ve written:
- Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
- Hist Jesus Anthology
- Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels
- Introducing NT Interpretation
- Jesus and His Death
- Jesus in Memory (ed.)
- New Vision for Israel
- Synoptics: Biblio
- The Face of New Testament Studies
- Who Do They Say I Am?
Scholarship Online:
- Apollos
- Books & Culture
- ChristianityToday
- CS Lewis
- EAC
- Early Xian Writings
- Euaggelion
- Gospels
- Jesus and His Death Blog
- Karl Barth Online
- Mark Goodacre’s Weblog
- Online Journals Access
- Online Pseudepigraph
- Pete Enns
- Prime Time Jesus
- Theopedia
- ThinkTank
Stuff online:
- 5 Streams
- Big Muddy
- Catalyst Scripture
- Catching the Wave
- DaVinci Code
- Forgiveness
- Future or Fad?
- Gospel of Judas
- High Calling
- Interview on Emerging
- Interview with LL Barkat
- IVCF Eikons
- IVCF Gospel
- John Bunyan
- Keys of the Kingdom
- Lake Emerging
- Mary in CT
- Missional in Seattle
- Missional Matrix
- Nativity Story
- Never Alone
- New Perspective
- Pepperdine Interview
- Professor as Scholar
- Recl Mind Mary 1
- Robust Gospel
- Social Justice
- Trojan Horse 2
- WiredParish Mary Interview
- Word/World NPP















posted October 22, 2009 at 8:42 am
Does this not, to some extent, at least, ignore the fact that many of the early creeds were created not for the purpose of establishing continuity, but for the purpose of identifying heretics? There is no openness in the early creeds! They are a sea of apparent contradictions as the orthodox attempted to carve out middle ground between the extremes on both sides. But the crucial role and purpose was that anyone uncomfortable with or unable to recite a creed was thus easily identified as someone to be shunned. Is this really a tradition we want to keep carrying with us?
To speak of some diversities as inappropriate has no meaning. Diversity IS. Appropriate or not, it IS there, and you have to deal with it. The overwhelming majority of the Church’s image problem right now within culture is that we are seen as a group of people clinging to a non-existent idealized past (a white, male, Western past) and therefore violently trying to force the diversity of our current world through a filter of conformity to purge it of “inappropriate” diversities. This is the core of what must change! The core!
posted October 22, 2009 at 9:02 am
“But the crucial role and purpose was that anyone uncomfortable with or unable to recite a creed was thus easily identified as someone to be shunned. Is this really a tradition we want to keep carrying with us?”
In regards to “the tradition”, are you speaking of recognizing heresy, or are you speaking of the practice of shunning?
posted October 22, 2009 at 9:55 am
Is “emerging” really still too “north american”?
and even if it is, is that bad?
i don’t think we’d critique africans for focusing their discussions about faith, etc. on the wide range of african experiences/cultures/contexts.
i’ve never understood why this “north american” thing constantly comes up…
i’m genuinely curious about this.
posted October 22, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I just got the book in the mail from Amazon today! I’m excited to jump in and read it. I’ve got a trip next week and am saving it for the plane… don’t know if I’ll be able to wait that long
As for the point that Franke makes about the emerging conversations being too North American, I’m interested to see what he says. I, for one, agree. If the emerging movement is about being more missional and being more aware of context and culture, then we need to see all of that from lenses that go beyond our nice, white, male, western desks.
posted October 22, 2009 at 3:27 pm
This seems like wishful thinking to me. I suppose whether or not it is depends on details like when is diversity not appropriate? The Reformation seems like an odd choice as the damage from the wars resulting from the plurality of that time is hard to miss.
posted October 23, 2009 at 7:57 am
i just don’t see how it’s a problem for a portion of emerging whose context is North America, the context they are placed in and missionally engaging, to therefore be, well, North american.