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…
Paul’s Theology on Justice, Righteousness and Reconciliation (A Primer on Justice and Missions, Part 2)
In my last post (Framing Justice Theologically), I posited the following thesis: “Justice–fairness, though important to God and to God’s people, is nevertheless incomplete. God’s justice is larger than simply fairness or equity. God’s justice…
Framing Justice Theologically (A Primer on Justice and Missions, Part 1)
About half way into my ethical and theological reflections on Urbana 15, I realized that I needed to preface my response to the challenging messages by Michelle Higgins and Christena Cleveland and InterVarsity’s courageous choice to…
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…
Back to Blogging after a Summer Hiatus
The summer has blitzed by and I’m still catching my breath. Although I returned from the seminary trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo in early June, and was planning on only taking a few…
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…
Movie Review: Apostle Paul – A Polite Bribe by Robert Orlando
I’m glad that I can get back to blogging. I was taken aback by how busy the 1st week of the Spring 2015 term was and missed already my aim to post regularly at least…
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…