Maybe I am a bit slow on things... but in the past I thought of Contextual Theology in very simple terms. Since I agree with Bevans and Vaughn and others that "All Theology is Contextual" I would argue that there are two types of Contextual Theology --- Good Contextual Theology and Bad Contextual Theology. This …
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I just bought a couple of books of Adesegun Olayiwola for our seminary's library. I wrote the Foreword for one of these two ("Principles..."). Here is the Foreword: "What is your business here in our country?" asks the immigration officer. The man who stands before him looks at the officer and confidently says, "I am …
<Decided to place a post that I put on our family website here. https://bobandceliamunson.wordpress.com/> US at least, most houses have more than one entrance. The side door or garage door is commonly used by family members--- the family door. Often the front door, seeming the main door of the house, is used less and is …
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This an excerpt from an article I wrote, suggesting the value of midrash discussions on Biblical narratives. In a group theological reflection, suppose the story of David meeting Goliath is discussed using aggadic midrash. Focusing on the initial part where David enters the field of battle, perhaps one of them, named “Bill,” tells a part …
Something like 40 or 50 years ago I was in church and we had a guest preacher. He was in his 60s, possibly 70s. He gave an interesting little story--- probably not true, but perhaps it was. It was something like this... "When I was a young boy in church, our pastor was preaching, and …
The Top Posts During 2023 Beautiful Garden in the Desert (Isaiah 58:11-12) Curiously, this is my top post this year but not on this website. It is a Sermon I wrote years ago. Sodalities and Modalities in Missions January 4, 2021. Classic missions on sodality and modality structures. The name pretty much describes it. Medical …
Yes, I know this is an odd question. However it relates to a question I got in class. I was sharing with my class how my home church does "Trick or Trunk" on the Sunday afternoon before Halloween. Our church had around 2000 attendees making it (for our size church) wildly successful. One students was …