No More Not Yet John Dunham

This episode lays out some more complexity of Bible translation, but it ends with an encouragement that the point is not to know everything. It's actually to love.

This bonus preliminary season shares teaching by John Dunham at Roundtables. Official No More Not Yet audio follows Season 0.

Language, translation, and especially Bible translation are all complicated. This episode lays out some of the issues involved in the Bible translation process and illustrates differences in philosophy.

This bonus preliminary season shares teaching by John Dunham at Roundtables. Official No More Not Yet audio follows Season 0.

How often do we read Philemon?
How often do we read full books of the Bible?

Today, two almost-nevers unite in a bold play to shake things up. The Apostle Paul provides an amazing model for dealing with entrenched injustice. He builds his case with wit and manipulation—maybe not the optimal path, but it was effective in an explosive situation.

This bonus preliminary season shares teaching by John Dunham at Roundtables. Official No More Not Yet audio follows Season 0.

There's one paragraph in Matthew 5 that seems to animate HR policy in Christian non-profits. Often employees are advised to turn the other cheek or go the extra mile, which ends up compounding whatever injustice they are facing. Jesus is instead offering something subversive to equip the mistreated to turn the tables and move society toward justice.

This bonus preliminary season shares teaching by John Dunham at Roundtables. Official No More Not Yet audio follows Season 0.

Jesus interacted with people in different positions in society in different ways. Using a grid to map how many steps Jesus took from society's purported center shows how far he is driven to show his love. In fact, he ends up walking the edges of society at least as often as he's in the "center" lambasting the hypocritical leaders. Jesus is the center, a mobile center, living at the edges to bring the center to the conventional margins and the conventional outsiders in. 

This bonus preliminary season shares teaching by John Dunham at Roundtables. Official No More Not Yet audio follows Season 0.

Lamentations is a collection of songs that are some of the most pitiful downers to hit the Top 40 in the last 3,000 years. Anybody who quotes from Lamentations goes for the bridge in the middle that is nice and encouraging. We miss the impact of this encouragement when we ignore the sad songs and waltzes that haven't been selling for millennia.

This bonus preliminary season shares teaching by John Dunham at Roundtables. Official No More Not Yet audio follows Season 0.