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1 week ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
One cannot deny that most religions, and political parties, claim truth for their side. Christianity is no different. However, claims to truth today tend and trend toward counter-claims of arrogance and the insufferable. Not that long ago a well-known, major university seminary NT scholar made such a claim and got himself into hot water with others.
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1 week ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
Last Thursday evening (22 May 2025) Zondervan Academic hosted a webinar about the new book, edited by Michael Bird and Jason Maston, called Five Views on the Gospel. Four of the five authors were able to participate. The five authors are Michael Horton, David deSilva, Julie C. Ma, and Shively T.J. Smith, along with me. In today’s post I want to summarize and expand on what I presented in my 10-minute slot. Each was given 5-10 minutes to present our view of the gospel.
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2 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
Tonight is the webinar for the authors of the chapters in Five Views on the Gospel, and the authors are named with a summary below, which is taken from the Introduction to the volume:Link to webinarAs part of the exploration of the gospel in this volume, we have asked the contributors to address several things to make these conversations happen.
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2 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
Read any of the Gospels and you will discover that the closest followers of Jesus didn’t always get it right. They failed. We all fail. There are two follow-up questions to failure in following Jesus: What does Jesus do about it? What do we do about it?
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2 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
From Invisible Jesus, written by Tommy Phillips and yours truly. No two stories of deconstruction are identical. Lots of deconstructors never even use or embrace the term deconstruction. And not all deconstructors become reconstructors. The majority do, however. One of those who, so far as I have read (his book Testimony; read my review of his book here), does not use the term “deconstruction” is Jon Ward, the Yahoo! News chief national correspondent for politics.
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2 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
From Revelation for the Rest of Us, by Cody Matchett and me (a repost)The ways of reading Revelation that spend time speculating about When all this will happen? and Who is the antichrist? fail the church in discipleship. Instead of a discipleship that teaches us to discern Babylon among us and shows us how-to live-in Babylon as dissidents instead of conformists, these speculative questions teach Christians how to wait for the escape from Babylon.
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3 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
By Mike GlennIn John 9, we’re told the story of Jesus and his disciples walking up on a man who was born blind. The disciples saw a situation we’ve all seen. Something is broken in the world, something isn’t right and, like us, they wanted to know whose fault it was. So, who’s fault is it, the disciples wanted to know. Is it the parents? Did they do something during the pregnancy that caused his blindness? Was he mistreated as a child? Did this man do something to cause his blindness?
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3 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
This is a repost of Cody’s fine set of reflections. By Cody MatchettI serve as the Scholar in Residence at First Assembly Church in Calgary Alberta Canada, where I live with my wife Brianna who is a counseling therapist and our two children Aletheia and Atticus. I am one of Scot’s former MA students, a hopeful future PhD student, and the co-author of our upcoming book, Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call To Follow Jesus As A Dissident Disciple.
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3 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
What a time to have a book appear about Peter! My students and I, under the solid editorship of Nika Spaulding, spent a term reflecting on Peter and his contribution to church life and the pastoral calling. So, take a look at and, if “the Spirit moves,” purchase our book: And On This Rock: Peter’s Transformative Journey from Fisherman to Follower to Foundational Leader. Last week I posted on this Substack Lynn Cohick’s journey through this book, and her renewed appreciation for Peter.
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1 month ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
Chp 5 of Revelation for the Rest of Us, written with Cody Matchett. What the church needs is the courage to think theo-politically, to think about politics in theological rather than in power, partisan, or economic terms. Here are seven characteristics of Babylon found mostly in Revelation 17-18. Read the texts and add up the prophet’s understanding of political toxicity and corruption. Then think of our country. It’s not hard.
