new creation

John Doyle has now summarized his excellent set of studies of the ’new creation’ motif in Paul. He claims to have embarked on this course at least partly as a self-defensive response to a piece I had written on the Canaanite ’genocide’, so I hope a courteous rejoinder is not out of place.

I was recently invited to join a Facebook group named ’Initiative For Every Pastor To Read "Surprised By Hope" Before Easter 2009’, whose laudable objectives are defined as follows:

This group is for those who commit to doing everything in their power to encourage/force/entice/trick every pastor they know to read Surprised By Hope by N.T. Wright before Easter 2009.

This group is for all who can not sit through another Easter sermon by Pastor Frank Gospelman or Reverend Jeremy Smoothtongue....