John March

Category: Theology

  • The Irony of Iron Man

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    I was in Boston a couple of weeks ago without Mary or my kids.  I took advantage of my free time to see the movie Iron Man.  Overall, this was probably my favorite superhero movie to date.  Robert Downey Jr. was wonderful.  He played the part well.  He was funny and winsome. What I found…

  • Heaven 3: Metaphors

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    Talking about heaven is a little like talking about your unborn child.  It’s like talking about that vocation you want to be when you grow up.  It’s like talking about the job you want when you graduate from college.  Talking about heaven is like talking about an unknown future, except it’s unique in that the…

  • Young Reformers and Emergent on Certainty

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    Tony Jones and Colin Hansen are having a blogging style dialog over at CT (here).  At the end of the first post, Tony asks the question: “Where we probably differ is not so much on theology, but on epistemology….I wonder, do you think that some people are just more inclined to look for sure answers,…

  • Heaven 1: If you were to die tonight….

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    A few years back (8, I think), I went through an Evangelism Explosion training.  The training consisted of teaching you a packaged Evangelistic sales pitch that could be presented verbatim on demand.  The presentation always began with the question: “If you were to die today and find yourself at the gates of heaven, what would…

  • Return to Relationality: Babies

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    Philosophy’s and theology’s recent return to emphasizing our human identity in relational categories makes a lot of sense. Here’s an article that seems to support this way of thinking about humanity from the earliest days of our development: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9757396-7.html?tag=nefd.only We can’t become better humans by ingesting more information. Development happens through human contact and interaction.…

  • God forsakes God

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    “In the night before his arrest, Jesus went into the garden of Gethsemance. He took three disciples with him and ‘began to be greatly distressed and troubled’, writes Mark (14.33). ‘He began to be sorrowful and fearful [troubled]’ writes Matthew….Then he throws himself on the ground in horror and fear (Mark 14.35). Earlier too, he…