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Archive for March 30th, 2005
A Jamaican proverb?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005McLaren quotes a fictionalized Jamaican grandmother as saying: If you find you-self on one mountain peak and you wanna get to anodda one, den dey is only one way up, and dat is to go down fust. (ANKOC, p. 80) If it’s not already a proverb, it should be.
He chopped her body into 12 pieces
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005Anyone else tired of the goofy ways we try to make sense of Scripture’s more outrageous stories that contradict our theology and customs? Consider Judges 19-20: But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the [...]
I’m proud of him
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005I ran into Kevin Cedeno this afternoon. He’s still flying high after receiving an acceptance letter from John Jay College last week, and his work with the Youth Justice Board has him interviewing Department of Education bigwigs (on the schedule, Chancellor Joel Klein and possibly Mayor Bloomberg) and criminal justice experts. Three years ago, Kevin [...]
From the jacket cover
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005You know the book’s deep when even the endorsements provoke. Here’s one from Dr. Leonard Sweet about A New Kind of Christian (“ANKOC” in future posts): This is a book that heightens the depths and deepens the peaks. … [I]t is not to be entered into lightly, but reverently and in the fear of a [...]