Just a quick link to Scot McKnight’s beginning of a series of Advent meditations. Let the Great Anticipation begin!

….because it will be stuff I didn’t write Well, the Westminster Jazz Band didn’t show up last night to quiet my demons, so I got out my own King David (my mp3 player) and put on a couple songs anyway.
For You
I have set aside everything I love
I have saved everything else for you
I [...]

Title and picture are a WTS insider joke. Apologies to all outsiders.
This is a desperate plea for public accountability.
I’ve got a lot of work to do right now on two papers with looming deadlines. So I’m going to keep myself from new posts until at least the first one is in the bag. The next [...]

Hi, this is the Sage. My celebrity friend Sam (we’re pretty much friends by now, right?) sent me like the freakin’ sweetest multimedia stuff EVER! It’s probably the best link I’ve ever posted. Even though I’ve already made like INFINITY awesome blog posts.
Your wildest dreams will come true if you play these ads for [...]

Very convicting.

The official Sam Boyd Fans fansite has a boffo new name! Check it out.

In the great secret wisdom of Internet quizzes, I have been determined to be
Entish
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But I married an elf. Go figure. And a HT to her for finding this quiz.

Keith DeRose has posted part one of a planned two part response to an interaction between him and Brian McLaren over to what extent (if any) there has been a major historical turn into a postmodern era, and to what extent it has or should effect the church. I was encouraged by the irenic* tone [...]

Last night I was at a beer tasting hosted by Ryan, a seminary friend who makes his own home brew. (I love being at a Presbyterian seminary ) My wife began to question, however, at what point “tasting” crosses over into drunken debauchery [just kidding!! I did not get drunk!!!]
His [...]

My classmate and fellow creep Kyle Newcomer expresses his concerns over Emergent in this post in a way that I see as pretty much summing up the ever-hardening position of a circle of conservative evangelical scholars. Despite Kyle’s unfairly throwing at me a boatload of cute animal pictures, topped off with shots of his lovely [...]