I presented my paper on the lived experience of atonement theologies this morning. First, I took the audience through some of the violent and Othering imagery and metaphors at the end of the Christian bible and explained, based on George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s research, that metaphors open up patterns of thought and interpretation as well as restrict them. Then I shared […]
Interview: Insights from an Adventist communicator
Alita Byrd interviewed me on the Adventist Forum/Spectrum Magazine blog about my upcoming presentation at the 2016 Spectrum conference. We covered quite a bit of ground: the work I do with churches, my thoughts on the denomination’s near future, as well as the recurring question about North American Adventism’s racially separated conferences. ‘For God so loved the world’ […]
Read with Spectrum: Volf’s Flourishing
Adventist Forum’s Spectrum Magazine is hosting a summer reading group again this year. Last year, we read Richard Beck’s reflections on morality, purity, and disgust in the book Unclean. Read my article on the body and the private sphere. This year, we turn to Miroslav Volf’s latest work, Flourishing: Why we need religion in a globalized world. […]
