I have come to do most of my "blogging" over at Twitter because usually I am just wanting to alert people to a quote or article or to make a brief comment. I am doing more of my extensive analysis in my academic writing (dissertation and articles) so Twitter fits where I am at right now. Below I have pasted my tweets from the last few months. I would like to think there is a treasure trove of good resources here. Greetings to all, Andy
Tweets
Darrell Guder Oct 22-23, 2012 lectures @DubuqueSeminary video: Missional Thing? http://youtu.be/FzRjDbKCUdQ Missional Theologyhttp://youtu.be/bJkPT5ALavc
Rev 12:4 Nativity Scene. "The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth."http://amandajdrury.blogspot.com/2012/12/nativity-set-sam-style.html … @amandadrury@johnldrury
BuzzFeed @BuzzFeedTwitter is officially rolling out your tweet archiveshttp://blog.twitter.com/2012/12/your-twitter-archive.html …
RT @ahc "Are the Metro-Evangelicals Right?" @Keith_J_Millermakes some sharp points about glib missional urbanism.http://www.mereorthodoxy.com/are-the-metro-evangelicals-right/ …
The 2012 Christianity Today Music Awardshttp://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/december-web-only/2012-ct-music-awards.html … @CTMagazine
Christianity Today @CTmagazineGleanings: Luther Seminary (ECLA) president Richard Bliese has resigned after $4 million revenue loss || http://bit.ly/UI8mae
John Wilson @jwilson1812
"the most important book I have ever read on the church"@scotmcknight on "Salt, Light, and a City" by @GrahamJGHillhttp://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/12/12/jesus-creed-books-of-the-year-2/ …
scotmcknight @scotmcknight
Kate Masur http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/11/30/a-filmmakers-imagination-and-a-historians/ … and @pharvey61http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/6669/_great_white_men__again__on_lincoln_and_our_civil_religion/ … remind viewers of Lincoln that blacks made abolition possible.
Ship of Fools @shipoffoolscomKarl Barth died today in 1968. "To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world."
Doug Coupland @DougCouplandFor all the people I've met working on novels, forget everyone else, just slam the pedal to the floor and get them finished. Be stoked.
RT @therealtobymac Sooooo grateful for a Grammy nom for Eye On It! / It is indeed good. My kids (7, 5, and 2) love it.http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=14 …
@jwilson1812 Can't wait to read that. They haven't posted the PDF yet: http://www.wheaton.edu/isae/evangelical-studies-bulletin …
Wheaton Theology Conference April 4-6, 2013 with Stanley Hauerwas, @scotmcknight @PLeithart et al.http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Departments/Theology/Conferences-and-Lectures/Theology-Conference … @WheatonBlog
"It pulled off a rare feat: making Christianity seem appealing to those who have no interest in ever being Christians."http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/11/read-all-about-it-ns-books-year-2012?page=0,12 …
@DougGay Your "Rewiring Practical Theology" Political Theology 12, no. 4 (2011): 608-612. is superb. @jasonclark told me about it.
RT @ahc Scorching review from Deirdre McCloskey of Sandel's WhatMoneyCan'tBuy http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/editorials/sandel.php … / DM defends innovation & virtue ethics.
First Things @firstthingsmagA 2012 Ranking of Graduate Programs in Theology:http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/11/ranking-theology-programs …
@theonetruemyles Cf. J.H. Yoder, "Christological Presuppositions of Discipleship" pp.127-151 in Being Human, Becoming Human, Pickwick, 2010.
@james_ka_smith @jasonclark and I are planning to come to your session. We'll say hi to you.
@jrgordon13 @dwcongdon I'm not there but my ETS picks: Keith L. Johnson, Kevin Hector, Vanhoozer, Crisp, Stephen Long, and James Gordon.
Alan Jacobs @ayjay"A woman who has sex with multiple partners (maybe hooking up a lot if she’s at a more elite college),…" http://tmblr.co/ZA1xbyW-U-y2
Justin Welby @BishopofdurhamThought in the night, those who made money betting on me give it to their local church! I suspect it was less than papers suggest.
troy & sara groves @grovesroadVery saddened RT @donchaffer: Painful to read about @iamfujimura's artwork destroyed by flood: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Sandy–Golden-Sea-and-Dillon.html?soid=1101637163691&aid=TRcKMfCNCUc …
Luke Bretherton @WestLondonManSo Justin Welby currently +Durham is to be the new Archbishop of Canterbury. A turn up for the books!
Video of Sarah Coakley, Andy Crouch @ahc, and Richard Mouw talks at @DukeDivinity October 15-16, 2012 now available.http://divinity.duke.edu/news-media/news/2012-10-23cpsrecordings …
I posted my AAR (American Academy of Religion) meeting (Nov 16-20 in Chicago) session recommendations. http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2012/11/aar-and-sbl-recommendations.html …
1 hr panel "What Biography Reveals About the Presidential Candidates" with Hauerwas, documentarian Kirk & Rev. Lasater.http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/34270/what-biography-reveals-about-t …
John H @johnthelutheranBasically, the Ninety-Five Theses were a good post, but they led to a /nightmare/ of a comments thread…
New book out today "Incorporation"-a novel!– from Will Willimon. 40% off through Nov 4. @wipfandstock @WillimonTweetshttp://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=z7mmglbab&v=001gZhKK2h2Be_D6yGxuKPSMTHOeA8I0bh1_fDJU9hZ7cowevsXcdiSdbXdABPmsxvE1w2gEOjsR-U40ZJAIqsooIsorLpWTfHQn-QKbrbnGp4Ac59NOl0HwN_tSIvfd1OXGoiGIjeCPvwhhz2S_X9dPQ%3D%3D …
New book out today "Incorporation"-a novel!– from pastor of pastors Will Willimon @DukeDivinity 40% off through Nov 4.http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=z7mmglbab&v=001gZhKK2h2Be_D6yGxuKPSMTHOeA8I0bh1_fDJU9hZ7cowevsXcdiSdbXdABPmsxvE1w2gEOjsR-U40ZJAIqsooIsorLpWTfHQn-QKbrbnGp4Ac59NOl0HwN_tSIvfd1OXGoiGIjeCPvwhhz2S_X9dPQ%3D%3D …
Barth: A good description of the church is τοὺς περὶ αὐτὸν κύκλῳ καθημένους "those seated in a circle around him" (Mark 3:34). CD IV/4, 37.
Will I see my loved ones in heaven? Barth: You will see not only your 'loved ones' but ones you weren't crazy about.http://books.google.com/books?id=3N-PAdOUIfIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=%22herr%20professor%22&f=false …
Negotiating is not "horse-trading" but "trying to do the right thing…even if this leaves loose ends." Rowan Williamshttp://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/10/23/3616348.htm …
Hauerwas (1999): "Foolish we are, believing we can rule ourselves by selecting this or that person to rule over us."http://books.google.com/books?id=InJu8BMlA9IC&lpg=PA153&dq=%22sovereign%20lord%20foolish%20we%20are%20believing%22&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q=%22sovereign%20lord%20foolish%20we%20are%20believing%22&f=false …
Stanley Hauerwas (3 min video): Elections are not serious for Christians but ideally provoke serious conversations.http://vimeo.com/51453976
Paul Griffith @DukeDivinity on Christianity often letting itself be reduced to a lapdog called "religion." http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/10/19/3614200.htm …@ABCReligion
Folks: I have accepted an offer to become a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the Honors College at Baylor U. Excited! Nervous!
Lack of sleep leads to typos. (Quantitative research based on sample size of one person).
@davidswanson Yes, a little. I wish the son of the Vineyard pastors would nudge the nonsense a little closer to coherence. We can hope.
Yes, Mumford and Sons "I will wait" is pretty sweethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGKfrgqWcv0 … but @crowdermusic 's 2012 Give Us Rest album has banjo + substance.
I comment on @millinerd 's post about why studying history matters–sparked by M. Lilla's review of B. Gregory's book.http://www.millinerd.com/2012/10/the-unintended-abdication.html …
Andy Crouch @ahcBig @CTmagazine day—along with @MarkGalli’s promotion to editor and @KatelynBeaty to managing editor, I become executive editor on 1 Dec.
J.D. Greear @jdgreearRT @FakeJDGreear: 9/23/12: Five Duke football players get baptized @SummitRDU. 10/20/12: Duke beats UNC. Hey Methodists, you're welcome.
My portable Logitech M325 mouse (receiver) broke. I called Logitech and they are sending me a new one for free. #Pleasantlysurprised
@kylejnolan Daniel Kirk @jrdkirk was asking this on Facebook yesterday. @ericaustinlee liked @zotero I get EndNote free at Duke. It's fine.
If all your kids' pictures and videos are slowing down your dissertation laptop, move them onto 2 external hard drives.
If your five-year old Lenovo ThinkPad (which you see used examples of online for $250) is slow, get some more RAM fromhttp://www.crucial.com/index.aspx
If EndNote is slow, you have to divide up your dissertation into smaller parts. Cf support: How to merge chapters into one document in Word.
"The lived witness of communities living God's Movement in the world leads people to ask Why?" — Jonathan @wilsonhartgrove @ERBksprint ed.
"Missiology . . . studies the power that is unleashed when local agency is fully mobilized." –Mark Shawhttp://www.internationalbulletin.org/files/html/2012-04-home.html …
ANNE LAMOTT @ANNELAMOTT1st drafts are Down drafts–get it all down. 2nd are Up drafts–clean it all up. 3rd are Dental drafs–go thru tooth by tooth, clean or pull
Princeton Seminary @ptseminaryCongratulations to Craig Barnes who has been named the seventh president of Princeton Seminary! http://www.ptsem.edu/index.aspx?id=25769804360 …#education #ptseminary
Black, White, & Gray @BWandGrayWhere the Protestants Roam: Map of Protestant Denominations in the US - http://goo.gl/brF4j via @patheos
Steve Holmes @SteveRHolmes'Jesus' Wife' papyrus fragment replicates a typo from an internet site. I'd say that the story is now over.http://ntweblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/jesus-wife-fragment-further-evidence-of.html …
Rowan Williams tells RC bishops to reach out by showing why Christianity is different, not "anxious . . . controlling."http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/10/11/3608616.htm …
Steven Purcell @stevendpurcell
I have moved my "Theological German: Advice and Resources" website to a new location: http://www.andyrowell.net/theological_german/ …
You built that. "The church builds itself. As its upbuilding is wholly the work of God, so it is wholly its own work." Barth, CD IV/2, p 634
You didn't build that. "Who is the true builder? In the strict and primary and ultimate sense it is God Himself and He alone" Barth IV/2 632
Though only God knows, we should accept as a working hypothesis that other members as well as ourselves are real Christians. Barth IV/1 699
For every "heresy" Douthat locates in his present, there exist precedents going back to colonial America. – Harry Stouthttp://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/09/pious-perversions …
Why IS The Gospel Coalition @TGC Complementarian? Questioning Carson, Keller and Piperhttp://theologyoutofbounds.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/why-is-the-gospel-coalition-complementarian-questioning-carson-keller-and-piper/ … John Couttshttp://thissideofsunday.blogspot.com/p/about-cv.html
Columbia's Mark Lilla slams Notre Dame's Brad Gregory's account that the Reformation ruined everything. http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/107211/wittenberg-wal-mart … Thx@agnologist
Plantinga’s criticisms of naturalism are directed at its deepest problem—how it can account for conscious beings.http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/sep/27/philosopher-defends-religion/?pagination=false …
@jwilson1812 Yes. "It is a heretical act of arrogance to arrogate divinity for oneself…Joseph Smith’s apostasy…gloriously…delusional."
@jwilson1812 I guess what Critchley is saying is that as an atheist, he thinks that it is good that Mormons are hard workers.
@jwilson1812 Weird though that a Christian/atheist? theological critique of Mormonism is titled "Why I love Mormonism."http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/why-i-love-mormonism/ …
"Obama asked for writings about war by people he admired: Saint Augustine, Churchill, Niebuhr, Gandhi, King."http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama …
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam: 23,000 casualties in just 12 hours.http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/17/150-years-later-picturing-the-battle-of-antietam/ …
Economists used to debate using words not equations.There’s something to be said for going back to that approach.Sumnerhttp://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=16285
Here’s what a lot of economists don’t realize. Mathematical models cannot show which policy is best. –Scott Sumnerhttp://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=16285
Donald Miller @donaldmillerBefore writing, I used to pray for words. Now I pray for a loving heart. The words come easier then. And they're better.
@ayjay @james_ka_smith Automatic follow tells me the people really don't read any tweets. The demand to is like telling me what I must read.
@ayjay @james_ka_smith Touche. I agree with Alan that Twitter is great bec it is not social: "Here's my tweet. Feel free to enjoy or ignore"
@ayjay @james_ka_smith I agree that you need not follow those who follow you but Alan's "secret indifference" approach also likely offends
The Vatican website's brown font on brown background design says "I don't care if you can read this but I'm special." http://www.vatican.va/
"It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction." –Jonathan Franzenhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one …
RT @ahc "Mouw, Coakley, Rivers, and (as one untimely born) me@DukeDivinity Oct 15-16 http://divinity.duke.edu/cps2012 —very excited about this."
Ben Rey @ben_rey@AndyRowell but there is overall national growth in master degrees in religion. According to IPEDS data.
Seminary (ATS) enrollment peaked in 2006. Surely the availability of theological resources (audio, blogs) on the internet is a key factor.
Tim Keller's new book Center Church is out: @jasonclark says "superb" @scotmcknight says probably Book of the Year.http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/09/04/the-measure-of-a-church/ …
"Allow a gentle question from a friend of Pietism. Where were the 'converts' when Hitler came? I would have appreciated some help." –Barth.
The conversion stories in the Bible are always calling stories. What makes Christians Christians, is that they get to do something. –Barth
"Drop the name Pietism. All words with 'ism' at the end are terrible–Calvinism, Lutheranism. No, we are servants of Christ." –Karl Barth
@travisegreene I looked at not just MDiv but overall ATS enrollment to answer your question. https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/242750162173296640 … Looks like 2006 was peak.
Total ATS enrollment: 1970 31,072; 1980 49,611; 1990 59,033; 2000 72,728; 2010 75,898. Peak in 2006 81,063. Most recent data: 2011 74,193.
Decline in MDiv students: 2007 25,673; 2011 24,227. ATS Full-Time Equivalent Enrollment–All Member Schools. http://www.ats.edu/Resources/PublicationsPresentations/Documents/AnnualDataTables/2011-12AnnualDataTables.pdf … Table 2.3-A
"No amount of witty and supposedly prophetic and reforming criticism of the church can" replace being part of it.–Barth, Christian Life,189
The widow of missiologist David Bosch (who died in car accident in 1992) Annemie Bosch just friended me on Facebook.#MissionariesKeepGoing
Writing tips from famous authors – brilliant! (ht @revjoannecox)http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/writing-advice-from-famous-authors … #fb
"Ten rules for writing fiction" (Feb 2010)–submitted by many authors including Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Franzen.http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one …
Stanley Hauerwas: Why C.S. Lewis should have been a pacifist.http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/08/24/3575360.htm … @ABCReligion Cf: @agnologist@FaithTheology
Branson Parler’s March 2012 review of The Heterodox Yoder by Paul Martens, M's May response, and P's Aug reply:http://erb.kingdomnow.org/the-heterodox-yoder-concluding-our-conversation/ … @ERBks
"The centre … for Barth was always primarily trinitarian (and ecclesial, but only by derivation)." –John Webster http://books.google.com/books?ei=B681UJCgCar46QGe74DgBQ&id=nq4RAQAAIAAJ&dq=shaping+a+theological+mind&q=%22the+centre+of+gravity+in%22#search_anchor …
Rabbi Schwarzschild to John Yoder, "I think you are a good Jew and a bad Christian." Heterodox Yoder, 87.
Rabbi Schwarzschild to John Yoder, "I agree passionately with your ethics, but, bluntly, Jesus offends and bores me." Heterodox Yoder, 87.
Pope Paul VI assured me he would pray for me that in my advanced age I would be given deeper insight into the problem of Mariology. –Barth
"Are the predicates of Mary–Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutrix, Mediatrix–to be understood only as pious invocation (Ratzinger)?"–Barth p23.
@bpetroelje Barth addresses Lumen Gentium on pp. 23-24 of Ad limina apostolorum; also suggests it does not cohere with Ad gentes pp. 33-34.
In Sept 1966 in Rome, Barth talked with Karl Rahner and Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) about Mariology. Ad limina apostolorum, 14.
Barth is polite but scathing on Vatican II documents in Ad limina apostolorum, but he sympathetically notes they were done by committee.
I commented on Brad East's summary of Stanley Hauerwas's ecclesiology http://resident-theology.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-summary-definition-of-hauerwass.html …
To resist the tyrannical 2 questions Is this good? Does this suck? the writer must learn to say Don't know. Lynda Barry, What It Is,123-135.
@jgsphd Hauerwas on his use of Karl Barth in the Gifford Lectures, "I believe it might make Stanley Jaki apoplectic." With the Grain, p. 20
RT @TheRabbitRoom "Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book . . . give it now.” –Annie Dillard. Ref.http://books.google.com/books?id=it8NwjEKwCMC&lpg=PA78&ots=6PxTj8_RQn&dq=%22Do%20not%20hoard%20what%20seems%20good%20for%20a%20later%20place%20in%20the%20book%2C%20or%20for%20another%20book%2C%20give%20it%2C%20give%20it%20all%2C%20give%20it%20now.%E2%80%9D&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=%22Do%20not%20hoard%20what%20seems%20good%20for%20a%20later%20place%20in%20the%20book,%20or%20for%20another%20book,%20give%20it,%20give%20it%20all,%20give%20it%20now.%E2%80%9D&f=false …
Kait Dugan @kaitdugan Great conversation going on today here (http://tiny.cc/5he3iw ) from my fellow PTS friends @dwcongdon and @WTravisMcMaken – worth your time!