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David Seccombe is the principal of Capetown’s highly regarded George Whitfield College and a New Testament scholar of sturdy reputation. This monumental treatment of Jesus and the kingdom he claimed both to introduce and to rule is able, insightful, faithful, and refreshing. It is a pity to be obligated to recognize that most Jesus scholarship–especially its popular manifestation–falls short of what Seccombe has produced in this book with regard to all four of those cardinal virtues. Continue Reading »

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Bishop George McKinney addresses the African-American community via a powerful and generative metaphor: just as literal slave masters once held his people in servitude in this country (the United States of America), so modern slave masters who look nothing like the ancient institution that counted human beings as property seek to reduce black Americans to a kind of bondage that is capable of just as much destructive force. Continue Reading »

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If Men’s Health—a main competitor of the magazine here under review—strikes you as pandering to the average guy’s baser instincts, you’ll want to check out Men’s Journal. Continue Reading »

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As Condé Nast’s chief rival in the affluent traveler sector of the glossy magazine industry, Travel & Leisure comports itself admirably. For those of us who have not yet considered buying a private jet, such affluent travel is more a spectator sport. Interesting, occasionally worth yelling about, but not something we’d put on our kit and run out on the floor to do for ourselves. Continue Reading »

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Look, maybe you could make highlight films as good as NFL Films does if you had the same tools. Continue Reading »

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An English friend musician of mine from Cambridge days used to sigh with ineffable poignance and say, ‘Ah, the French …’ Continue Reading »

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I shaved off my beard for this razor, shelved the electric razor, and find myself passing my hands over my chin in amazement several times in the course of the day. The five-blade Fusion is that good. Continue Reading »

It is easy to grow too comfortable with Paul’s body metaphor of the Christian community.

We are all unique. Each has his own gift, every one her individual perspective. Let each go his own way without fussing about or—more conveniently—being messed with for the individual slant of the ego one adds to the mob.

If these are Paul’s words, they are not his meaning. Only an intoxication with four centuries of individualism in the West allows us to slouch to the conclusion that this is the apostle’s teaching. Continue Reading »

It ain’t easy gettin’ smart.

Nor does wisdom come gently to the passive. On the contrary, moving from naiveté or even foolishness to wisdom is, from the perspective of the Bible’s wisdom tradition, an athletic accomplishment. It requires the same consistent, self-denying discipline that takes an athlete to the competition level. Continue Reading »

During a recent visit to the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Cairo (Presbyterian), I was invited to share some extemporaneous thoughts with the faculty on the topic of ‘excellence in theological education’. The gist of my remarks follows.

When we speak of achieving excellence in theological education, we must take ourselves and our alleged competencies out of the center. I have often said—first to myself and then to anyone who should ask—that I will leave the pastoral vocation of theological education only when it ceases to become a disciple-making enterprise. Making disciples embraces a critical role for the mentor whose life is offered with trembling hands as a model. Yet it is not fundamentally about me. Or about you. Continue Reading »