This Week in Word from the Bird
Romans 8 and Atonement. For Our Daughters Documentary. Reaching Swifties through African Prosperity Gospel? Plotinus on Gnosticism.
This week I’m lecturing on Building for the Kingdom, Liberalism & Secularism, and Christology in Canada.
Monday: N.T. Wright on Romans 8:3-4
Penal Substitution, but perhaps not as you know it!
Tuesday: For our Daughters Documentary (Paid Subscribers)
People drop what you are doing and watch this trailer for the documentary For Our Daughters.
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Wednesday: Reaching Swifties with African Prosperity Gospel (Free Sign-Ups).
No, I’m serious. Thanks to this lecture from Dr. Tamie Davis, we need to ask: Can Africans teach us how to evangelize people in a "feelings" based culture?
Thursday: A Platonic and Pagan Critique of Gnosticism (Paid Subscribers)
Plotinus, the 3rd-century Neo-Platonic philosopher, offered a penetrating critique of Gnosticism in his work Against the Gnostics written probably sometime in the 260s.
Friday: New Video and News of the Week (Paid Subscribers)
Video on Nicholas Ridley and commentary on news events of the week.
For Our Daughters, trailer suggests this is an important documentary for everyone. Where will it be platformed? I speak as a woman who experienced sexual abuse.