Elaine Storkey: The Next Decade

Elaine Storkey has a new piece over at the fulcrum website looking at what the future may hold for the Church and culture at large.  The closing paragraph ends with a call to action and cultural engagement.  I agree with this and simply want to comment that evangelical leaders are (aim to be) pretty good [...]

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Alan Storkey’s ‘Jesus and Politics’: Chapter 5

 
Here is another tasty quote from Jesus and Politics In discussing the Messiah and the suffering servant,
 

Yet more difficult is the idea that the king can also be a suffering Servant. Deep in this great book [Isaiah] is a radical understanding of sin and injustice, a deconstruction of human autonomy and power, a knowledge of love [...]

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Alan Storkey: Jesus and Politics, Chapter 4

 Another tasty quote from Jesus and Politics. In discussing the kingdom (reign) of God as part of Jesus’ ministry he says..

“Jesus moves around healing people—a man who is manic, a woman with fever, those who are paralysed and diseased, a man leprosy, and so on. It is clearly his prior concern: Jesus seeks out people who [...]

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Alan Storkey’s ‘Jesus and Politics’ Chapter 3

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This book is great. Here is today’s quote on the role and nature of the prophet

But what is a ‘prophet’? Prophecy is an important Old Testament tradition, and one to which Jesus frequently makes reference. Jewish prophets called the people and their rulers to God and God’s law. They did not fight or try [...]

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Alan Storkey ‘Jesus and Politics’ Chapter 2

The tasty quote today comes from chapter 2. In this chapter he discusses the major poltical/religious groups at the time of Jesus, we turn now to a section within his discussion of the zealots.
‘a Pharisee, mounted a further rebellion in 4B.C. after Herod’s death. As we already noted, they overran Sepphoris, looted weapons from the [...]

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