I returned to the States after a glorious April month in east Jersusalem at the Ecolé Biblique et Archéologique Française (or EBAF, for short). I’m still processing my experience in the midst of pushing forward…
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Reflections on Urbana 2015 (Part 2: Ethical and Theological)
In my last post on Urbana 2015, I shared my personal and pastoral reflections on the messages and seminars I heard at the conference. Then as I started this post, I realized that I needed to preface my comments…
Reflections on Urbana 2015 (Part 1: Personal and Pastoral)
I’ve been a way from blogging because I had to make an emergency trip to Los Angeles and attend the funeral services of a dear friend whom my wife and I knew since our college…
Off to Urbana 2015
Once held in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, the conference has become solarge that it has been moved to the larger convention center in St. Louis I’m off on a road trip to St. Louis to attend…
On Mission to Congo
Whew! After blazing through finals week, graduation, and submitting the grades for all my classes, I’m taking off on a two-week mission trip with North Park’s missiology professor Paul DeNeui and a team of seminary…
Epilogue on Idol Food: An Ethics of Pleasure in Theological Tension with the Freedom of the Christian
In my last series of posts, I wrote on how Paul engages with the Corinthian church and answers their questions concerning the permissibility and non-permissibility of idol food consumption (1 Cor 8-10). There I argued…
Why Missions and Ministry Look like Movements
This post might seem like a complete non-sequitur, but I just came back from seeing the opening debut of the Cesar Chavez movie with my Ethnic American Biblical Interpretation class. Wow! What a powerful movie!…