Piper and Carson on “The Pastor as Scholar, and the Scholar as Pastor: Reflections on Life and Ministry.”  For those of us that don’t live in the epicenter of evangelicalism, let’s hope these get recorded.

For what it’s worth, I’m glad to see the word “scholar” making its way into the title.  All pastors should be theologians, and all theologians should be pastors, but not all pastors should be scholars.  There are two distinct communities (at least for now); academic and ecclesial.  Thanks be to God, there are a few who deserve all three titles, whose scholarly work is ultimetly pastoral.

Reno again – “On Graduate Study in Theology”

You are no more likely to mature as a theologian outside an atmosphere of prayer and piety than as a scientific theorist removed from the laboratory.

John 13:34f – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

From Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God:

To the agonized phenomenalist, agreeing in principle [that Jesus was a creative and original theologian] but worried that we can never know for sure that we are dealing with Jesus and not with the evangelists’ theologies, I recommend a good brisk walk, a Brandenburg Concerto, and NTPG Part II.

Beer bottle shards – from 120 PSI to 0 PSI in 1.9 seconds

I’ve been working through Duncan’s A History of the Synoptic Problem and decided to post a few of thoughts as I go through.  I don’t know, the internet and the Synoptic problem just naturally seem to go together.

HT: Beardly.com, via The Art of Manliness

HT: xkcd

No Line on the Horizon – $4 at Amazon today.