Flotsam and jetsam (7/29)

• Halden posts some great thoughts about ecumenical dialog, particularly with Anabaptist traditions, and a kind of naive theological “give and take” that often shapes such dialog.
• Don Carson’s series on “The God Who Is There” is now available for download in both audio and video formats. According to the website, “The series is geared toward “seekers” and articulates Christianity in a way that causes hearers either to reject or embrace the gospel. It’s one thing to know the Bible’s storyline, but it’s another to know one’s role in God’s ongoing story of redemption.”
• Joe Lunceford discusses what he thinks are some key ways that “fundamentalists” distort scripture when discussing gender roles.
• Mike Bird discusses the way that justification by faith undercuts racism. (That, by the way, would have been a much better title than his “Justification by faith and racism.” I sure hope we’re not justified by racism.)
• Scott Bailey points out that you can download a .pdf of Emmanuel Tov’s Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts found in the Judean Desert (STDJ 54; Leiden: Brill, 2004) here.
• This year’s Booker prize longlist has been announced.
• And, if you want to understand more about the WikiLeaks controversy, Jon Stewart offers his usual trenchant analysis.