I call my blogging home Faith Improvised because it represents what I do as a student of the New Testament. I observe a body of texts that improvise upon the faith of Israel in light of the reality of Jesus Christ.
It also captures how I regard being Christian. The way of Jesus as depicted in the New Testament is both radically new and in complete continuity with the way of the God of Israel and his aims to claim a people for the redemption of the world. In the same way, Christian faithfulness is always shaped by its many pasts and is always reconfiguring and adjusting in order to meet and redeem new situations.
Faith Improvised is a space for me to think out loud and in community about pretty much anything and everything, but mainly about books I’m reading, movies, sports, biblical studies, and politics.
I teach New Testament here:
I earned my Ph.D. from here:
My hometown:
My tragic life-long sports devotion:
My favorite TV show for which I block out life and demand silence:
If I could only play one golf course for the rest of my life, it’d be here:
The movies I watch over and over and through which I envision life and relationships:
June 9th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Welcome, brother.
June 9th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Just when I thought the Internet could not get any better!
June 10th, 2011 at 10:48 am
Welcome to the blogosphere!
June 17th, 2011 at 10:56 am
I look forward to reading this . . . when I’m not sending someecards or playing facebook Texas Hold’em
July 25th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
[...] intrigued as well. Here is a description that is posted in the “About” section on his blog: The way of Jesus as depicted in the New Testament is both radically new and in complete [...]
August 6th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
wanted you to know I very much appreciate your blog and ministry to the church. blessings, -Brian
August 25th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
I just finished reading the “The Drama of Ephesians.” Great book. I’m starting a new series on Ephesians here at our church in Fort Worth and there are a number of things from your book that will make this reading/preaching of Ephesians fresh and important for us. Thanks.
–Jamey
PS–After I finished the “transforming the imagination” chapter, I probably had more words highlighted than not. Loved it. Words like expansive and possibilities and undiscovered continents come to mind.
Way to go.
September 20th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Hi Tim! Nice to see your blog here. I didn’t know you were at GRTS and had left Cedarville. Blessings on you, your family, and your ministry.
Phillip