Last Week’s Reading: Gaga, Creation Narratives, and Brueggemann

Christian Scharen with Blessed and Broken: Lady Gaga and Lucinda Williams.

Rachel Held Evans continues her interaction with The Bible Made Impossible, and looks at some parts of the Bible we usually don’t want to talk about.

Daniel Kirk asks, What is the Bible? 

Tall Skinny Kiwi on the Search for Masculine Christianity.

Rachel Stone discusses John Piper and the Rise of Biblical Masculinity.

Natalie suggests that Myopia Now will lead to Empty Pews Later.

Brian LePort on Christians, homosexuality, and civil discourse.

At Jesus Creed, RJS continues to work through The Evolution of Adam and compares the two Biblical creation narratives with each other and other texts from the ANE.

Ray Hollenbach lists the Five Men who Changed His Life.

Kurt Willems shares a brilliant clip about New Creation from Bell’s Poets / Prophets / Preachers.

Stephanie S. Smith on Staying Put in a Restless World.

Walter Brueggemann recently spoke at Eerdmans bookstore about his new book The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word. Unfortunately I was unable to attend, but Eerdmans was kind enough to share this clip from his lecture.