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1 week ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
On Juneteenth, and emancipation, and behind both, slavery, please read Jemar Tisby. He also explains the Juneteenth Flag, which I put here:On June 19th, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger, proclaimed freedom for slaves in Texas in a statement in Galveston. Juneteenth (officially Juneteenth National Independence Day) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslavedAfrican Americans.
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1 week ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
Before we turn to the post, this announcement so you can watch our webinar tonight about Peter.
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2 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
First published in 2010. Blogs are here to stay. Blogs are both a source of information and a form of community. What blogs provide is the opportunity to interact immediately with the information. At their best, blogs are the highest form of information, and sometimes news, media imaginable. If a good writer publishes an informative post, and good readers interact meaningfully, a blog can become community.
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2 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
By Carey C. Newman, Executive Editor Fortress PressWalter Brueggemann (1933–2025)“You are afraid of the text.” He paused. “You are afraid of what the Bible says.” Again, a pause. “You are afraid of the what the Bible says because you are afraid of what the Bible will ask you to do.” A third pause, this time uncomfortably longer.
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4 weeks ago | 
scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight
By Mike GlennOn the day we broke ground for the Rowen Glenn Center for Special Needs we were surprised, but excited to see the large crowd gathered to watch a few of us involved with the coming ministry to turn over a few shovels of dirt. We were even more surprised by how many questions we were being asked by those in attendance. What would be included in the facility? Would we have adult care? Did you have to be a member of the church to use the facility? When would it be open?
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1 month 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 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
