Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on February 14, 2014 I just wished a faculty colleague Happy Valentine’s Day and told him, as I put it, “I’m writing exams, but at least I’m doing it across the kitchen table from the woman I hold dear.” That made me think about living in the moment. About living into the moment. Yesterday, […]
Jack Levison’s book Inspired: The Holy Spirit and the Mind of Faith will be a featured in a panel at the 2014 annual forum of the Society of Vineyard Scholars (SVS). The theme of the forum is “Being the Church in the Time between the Times.” Three scholars, including Jack, will respond to the book […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on November 1, 2013 I was sitting with my teaching assistant yesterday at a local coffee haunt near our campus. As we chatted amiably, I mentioned that her workload would be a heck of a lot more next term. “When I’m teaching,” I said. She cocked her head, looked puzzled, and said, […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on October 24, 2013 On Wednesday night, my Hebrew class translated Genesis 41—the dead center of the story of Joseph. The word plays in Hebrew are hilarious and skilled, the storyline suspenseful yet playful. In one verse, the seven scrawny cows of Pharaoh’s dream devour seven pleasantly plump cows, but you can’t tell because the […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on August 27, 2013 My son Jeremy and I golfed the other day at a nine hole, par three course. You can’t exactly call it golf. I scored 49 when par was 27. That’s a forgettable enough score. But what I didn’t forget is this. As we walked the course, I felt the slightest […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on August 20, 2013 With Priscilla Pope-Levison. She wrote eighteen books, including the runaway international bestseller, The Way of Holiness. She founded one of America’s first urban mission centers in New York City’s Five Points district, described by Charles Dickens as “reeking everywhere with dirt and filth” and popularized by Martin Scorsese’s film, Gangs of New York, starring Daniel […]