The Bald and the Beautiful
December 16, 2013
The Rev. Jeremy Gradgrind's anti-Santa polemic will have to await the next Mortification of Spin to receive its due reward, unless 'Nunchucks' catches him first. Awful -- all those children out there unable to distinguish fact from fiction and fun from felony.
In the meantime, I am still basking in the joy of having been described this morning by a student as 'hip' because she did not recognise me --- my divinely sanctioned lack of natural cranial insulation requires me abandoning the jacket and tie and donning a wooly hat and dark glasses this time of year. Apparently, it made me a different person. Baldness has its compensations, slight though they may often be.
Anyway, Scot McKnight may be someone with whom I have significant theological differences at times; but we are surely bound together by an abiding suspicion of cant, spin and the current evangelical back story. He has a fascinating post here.
In the meantime, I am still basking in the joy of having been described this morning by a student as 'hip' because she did not recognise me --- my divinely sanctioned lack of natural cranial insulation requires me abandoning the jacket and tie and donning a wooly hat and dark glasses this time of year. Apparently, it made me a different person. Baldness has its compensations, slight though they may often be.
Anyway, Scot McKnight may be someone with whom I have significant theological differences at times; but we are surely bound together by an abiding suspicion of cant, spin and the current evangelical back story. He has a fascinating post here.
