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The newly released Brazos Theological Commentaries on the Bible are said to follow in the tradition of Karl Barth’s Romans and Luther’s Galatians. In resistance to hyper-specialization and the historical–critical project, editors R. R. Reno, Robert W. Jenson, Robert Louis Wilken, Ephraim Radner, Michael Root, and George Sumner enlisted a wide swath of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox theologians who agree on the Nicene Creed. Titles include Stanley Hauerwas on the book of Matthew and Jaroslav Pelikan on the book of Acts.
If you missed the official beginning of the church calendar (Advent), you can still align your mornings and evenings with the new Anabaptist prayer book, Take Our Moments and Our Days, published by Herald Press. The four-week cycle of prayers is designed for families and small groups. Almost all prayers are taken directly from the Bible. Though drawing from universal church language, its simplicity betrays the richness of the English language found in Cranmer’s classic Book of Common Prayer.
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“The Shopocalypse is coming! Who will be $aved? Let me exorcise your credit cards! Changellujuah!” The new satirical religio-documentary called What Would Jesus Buy? mercilessly parodies consumer culture in America through Reverend Billy’s Church of Stop Shopping, a collection of anti-hypocrites posing as a swaying gospel choir that randomly drop into Starbucks, Disneyland, and Walmarts to sing spirituals about crass consumerism. Producer Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) hopes the non-Christian impersonation of a televangelist preacher will jar North Americans to self-reflection. And they are listening. In a Sojourners column, Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann commented on the hilarious, though sacreligious film: “I have no doubt that Rev. Billy is a faithful prophetic figure who stands in direct continuity with ancient prophets in Israel and in continuity with the great prophetic figures of U.S. history who have incessantly called our society back to its core human passions of justice and compassion.”
—ChristianityToday.com
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