Jefferson Bethke, author and performer of viral video Jesus Hates Religion appears on US CBS TV. He does a very nice job of dealing with the questions (and even some of the support) and demonstrates how well he’s assimilated the range of comment arising from the video. Good work on staying on message. (Warning: contains …
Tom Cannon muses on a novelty pop-song and life teaching the Scriptures to a local congregation week after week, year after year. The challenge is to keep the message fresh, because we don’t really say anything new. He begins: “All the greatest hits from the past 40 years just use four chords. Same four chords …
Jefferson Bethke and Kevin DeYoung interact about DeYoung’s concerns regarding a performance video Bethke recorded about the superiority of Jesus over religion. The post is, in itself, an encouraging example of how two Christians who are concerned for the communication of the Gospel can interact and seek to refine one another. The substance of their …
So here’s some less irenic criticism of Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus, mentioned in my last post. From a post entitled: Lame Poetry, False Dichotomies, and Bad Theology, by Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: He [performer Jefferson Bethke] begins by suggesting that Jesus came to abolish religion, a popular claim among evangelicals, particularly those of …
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