Kevin Watson is a personal friend and colleague currently working on his PhD at SMU. We met each other when we were roommates getting our pastoral licenses at OCU, and this has ended up been a true blessing in my life. If you are a United Methodist (or just curious), please, please, please go read … Continue reading »
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Pick a Preaching Style, Any Style
Lately, I’ve been reading through Brian D. Russell’s work on missiological readings of Scripture. I can already see how these articles will seriously affect the way I teach and preach in the future. As I was reading, I found this interesting quote from Erwin McManus. Brian asked him if there was a particular style of … Continue reading »
Conflicting Moral Imaginations: Job, His Friends, and Suffering, Part 3
Job responds out of a moral imagination shaped by the bitter and difficult experience of crushing suffering. The sheer terror of these events shakes Job’s moral imagination to its core. We might even ask whether Job’s moral imagination was the reason he was chosen or if it was shaped by the sheer force of his … Continue reading »
Conflicting Moral Imaginations: Job, His Friends, and Suffering, Part 2
Job’s friends, in Newsom’s argument, aren’t simply the “bad guys” who come in from the outside to blast Job with accusations of wickedness. They are, like us, holistically formed by the stories and narratives of the culture in which they reside. Newsom shows how they seek to resist turmoil by imposing very particular narrative structures … Continue reading »
Conflicting Moral Imaginations: Job, His Friends, and Suffering, Part 1
In the next few posts, I’m going to post a paper I wrote as the final for my Job Exegesis paper at Drew University this summer. It will be broken into a series of posts over the next few days. Hope you enjoy a subject that really challenged and stretched my own imagination and understanding. … Continue reading »
