The baseball playoffs have begun (go Guardians!), the fall colors are denser by the day, the term is underway, and we’re already getting ready for Advent and Christmas Day. It’s that time of year.
It’s also time for another update about what will happen this week, so here goes:
Just how did the Reformed resurgence or the rise of new Calvinism occur? Was it a revival, was it manufactured, or what? Join us tomorrow.
We finish off Jay Kim’s wonderful new book on Tuesday with a look at why some people just can’t seem to say No — and what can be done about it.
We all wear reading lenses. Kris passed on to me today an article about Beth Barr comparing how two completely different lenses saw the figure of Hagar in Genesis. And Emerson Powery sets out how Augustine and how Howard Thurman read the parable of the Samaritan. Quite a difference in the lenses they were wearing, too. Join us Wednesday.
On Thursday we ponder how a holistic redemption, which I take to be a major theme in the Gospel of Luke, presses into discipleship. If redemption is holistic, what does that mean for discipleship?
Go Guardians! But also, the Mets!