Reminders as we Go Into March
1. Want to participate along with a dozen other blogs and scores of Messianic Jews in J-BOM? (The Jewish Book of the Month Club). Check here for info and here to order the March selection, The JPS Commentary on the…
The Purim-Passover Connection
This is a little something I wrote for Verge, the newsletter of MJTI. You can see a little of Verge at vergenewsletter.com, which, by the way, will become a full online magazine in the next few weeks. We have columns…
PODCAST: Yeshua in Context – The Messianic Secret
The gospels are short as biographical writings go. In such short narratives we might expect a simple story, describing what happened in Yeshua
BOOK EXCERPT: Love in the World to Come
The following is the beginning of the eleventh chapter of my book, The World to Come. I watched The Book of Eli last night. Whatever the critics say about the movie, it had a few really good lines. Not least…
Tradition, a worthy saying
Saw this in a comment on Scot McKnight’s blog today. People often say they are against Messianic Judaism because we place too much emphasis on a tradition, Jewish tradition. Many people vainly imagine their religious practice is pure Bible, like…
J-BOM, Get Ready
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New Post about Corridors, Israel Tour
I’m forming a group of people interested in an adventure-exploration tour of Israel in 2011. Here’s a new post about it: http://wp.me/pODBk-8
Classic Christian Creeds and MJ
A few weeks ago, I blogged about an immensely enjoyable and edifying paper we enjoyed at the Hashivenu Forum in Los Angeles, by Mark Kinzer. You can see that post here. Yesterday, on Scot McKnight’s blog (Jesus Creed), he posted…
Switching Haggadahs
I have a lot of Passover Haggadahs. I like to buy used ones on ebay and have built a small but respectable collection. I like to have some old ones and some new ones. I like Haggadot with pictures. I…
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