Paul’s Baptism Oopsie

I think I’m going to start using this video in my ecclesiology classes to introduce our discussions on baptism. Just don’t tell my dean. He might not like it.

(Oops, I forgot to HT Unsettled Christianity)

Flotsam and jetsam (9/29)

Conserve water, or this fish dies!

 

• Near Emmaus is giving away a copy of Fred Sanders’ The Deep Things of God: How the Trinty Changes Everything.
• And, speaking of, Fred Sanders has an interesting discussion of the Trinitarian theology of Keith Green.
• Michael Patton takes Roger Olson to task for arguing that we should consider the possibility of a Protestant purgatory.
• Patheos offers some good resources for introducing people to the five major religious traditions.
• Here’s a good post on developing a Lutheran perspective on honoring saints. (HT)
• And, for you Star Wars fans, here’s a life-sized and fully motorized R2D2. You can even get in a drive it around. That would have to make you the coolest person on your block. 

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Flotsam and jetsam (7/23)

• Ben Myers offers a very nice roundup of articles that have recently been posted over at the ABC Religion and Ethics portal, including articles by John Milbank, Rowan Williams, and Stanley Hauerwas.
• This month’s issue of Atlantic Monthly discusses “The End of Men” and the idea that “women are dominating society as never before.”  Another article asks “Are Fathers Necessary?” arguing that they’re not as essential as we think.
• Joe Carter offers a crash course in evangelical views of eschatology.
• Halden offers some more reflections on Rowan Williams’s recent address to the Lutheran World Federation Assembly. And, that same assembly has issued a statement calling on Lutherans to express regret for the past actions against Anapabtists.
• A Washington Post article considers whether the Tea Party is biblical.
• Matt Flannagan has posted the third of this 3-part series on epistemology, this time dealing with what happens when authorities clash.
• And, here’s a list of Eight Reasons Some Churches Do Not Grow.