Blog Topic: Arts

More Than Enchanting by Jo Saxton — Book Review

There are plenty of ministry books about women in leadership available. Books on why you should support women, why you shouldn’t, four views on the topic, books explaining where the Bible clearly lands, how to wrestle through the issue with your church, and more. We have a lot of books that see women as an [...]

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Two Posts On Oscar: Thinking Theologically in a Time of Tinseltown

This is turning into “Stuff The Burner Didn’t Write Thursday,” but when one sees other publications’ posts of value, one should republish.

This Sunday is the Super Bowl of Hollywood. Everybody will be dressed and finessed while distressed and under duress to be seen and celebrated. Surely, no serious Christian even pays attention to [...]

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Mark Lau Branson on His New Book Churches, Culture and Leadership

From the blog of Mike Cope:

Churches, Culture and Leadership by Fuller professors Mark Lau Branson and Juan Martinez is out now. Look for a review soon.

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A Beautiful Mind — How John Nash Taught Me the Importance of Yard Work

 

How does the church respond to the mentally ill–specifically schizophrenia? What is the role of community? If as many as one quarter of adults in the US struggle with some form of mental illness, and 2.2 million people are diagnosed schizophrenia, how do I as a friend or leader, and the church as a whole welcome [...]

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When The Burner Heard God In A Katy Perry Song…In Church

Yes, this happened. Yes, this is embarrassing.

The Burner loves to find the voice of God in works of art that are not necessarily intended to be spiritually significant. This phenomenon is covered in A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture by Fuller professor Barry Taylor and former Fuller [...]

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And Ed Said, “Let There Be Sex!” — Sexperiment by Ed and Lisa Young–Book Review

After all the brouhaha, hubbub and hullabaloo of Real Marriage, it’s nice to read a nice book.

What? No crazy quotes to pull out?

It’s telling that the only boldface sentence in the book is “Everyone needs to know the truth behind God’s design for sex.”

Pastor Ed Young and his wife, Lisa, haven’t exactly [...]

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A Revolutionary Understanding of Resurrection in Hebrews

This post was originally published on Wheaton College’s “For Christ and Kingdom” blog by Fuller alum Michael Kibbe.

Twice (in both cases by people qualified to say such things) in recent weeks I have heard David Moffitt’s recently published dissertation (Atonement and the Logic of the Resurrection in [...]

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