parables of a prodigal world

I ordinarily hate to shine the spotlight on one of the loyal visitors to this blog, as few as they are, but seeing as one of the comments to my last post was precisely germane to the point I was making, with sincere apologies and the utmost appreciation for engaging in this conversation: Michael Awbrey said... I have recently been in conversation with several people regarding one issue voting (i.e. the abortion issue) in this year's race. What are your thoughts on Obama and abortion? Why are you not a one issue voter? I was frankly sad when I read the question. I felt like N.T. Wright after a long lecture on biblical cosmology when someone in the audience invariably will ask "But what do you think Hell is like?" What are my thoughts about Obama and abortion? I like Obama, and I don't like abortion. I guess that's the short answer. For a slightly lengthier discussion about my views on abortion, I've posted once before on that issue. But the whole point of the...

My friend Trevin Wax over at Kingdom People recently posted on the issue of abortion in "honor" of January being the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. My own account with the issue within my Christian life was shaped quite powerfully by a particular event, one which I chronicled in the closing paragraphs of the introduction of my (hopefully) soon-to-be-published book Parables of a Prodigal Son: The Theologically Grounded Testimony of an Ordinary Scoundrel . The story is set within the context of my grappling with the struggle to understand the bible as a holistic story, and my coming to understand that we can only grasp the truth of the Bible by understanding it as such. It goes something like this: In other words, the truth of the Bible can only be grasped by this holistic, bird’s-eye, narrative view. This narrative perspective is critical because our language is too limited, our experiences too varied, and our God too magnificent to be reduced to a set of objectively true state...