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Scot McKnight

Effective Consent

If you spend much time on a college campus, read college ministry-related blogs, or talk to students (or their parents), sooner or later you will run into talk about the problems of students consuming too much alcohol and “hooking up”

Stephen Rankin December 7, 2012December 7, 2012 Emerging adults, General, Higher and Theological Education, Religion 2 Comments Read more

Thinking about Scholarship about Jesus

One of the major questions I think about often – partly as a scholar, but more so as a questioning Christian – touches on how “history” as a discipline and “theology” as a discipline relate – or not.  Stick with

Stephen Rankin November 21, 2012 Christian Life, Doctrine/Theology, Religion, The Church, United Methodism No Comments Read more

A Biblical View that Lays to Rest an Old Methodist Division

N.T. Wright writes faster than I can read.  Having relished a few of his other works, I sat down with his new  How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, (HarperOne, 2012).  I’m not finished and I’ve been trying

Stephen Rankin September 27, 2012September 27, 2012 Book Reviews, Christian Life, Doctrine/Theology, Ministry, Preaching/Teaching, Religion, The Church 2 Comments Read more

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Meet Steve

I serve as Executive Director of the Spiritual Maturity Project, a ministry some of us have recently started.  For 25 years I worked in higher education as a professor and chaplain and before that as a pastor.  I love to help people grapple with big and basic questions to grow into real ,grown-up Christian discipleship.

I ruminate on all manner of theological, biblical, historical, and cultural topics. I believe followers of Jesus need to be more like members of Issachar’s tribe, able to read the times. Read more

 

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