Leonard Allen

Dean, College of Bible & Ministry, Lipscomb University. Author, Poured Out: The Spirit of God Empowering the Mission of God (2018)

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

We have corrupted the word ‘Church' by constantly using it in a non-missionary sense.

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

@JosephBottum @weeklystandard A poignant and beautifully done essay! Thank you

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Both this book and Brad East's review of it help us in the important work of (re)engaging premodern exegesis.

[theChristianCentury @ChristianCent]

.@eastbrad cuts through the polemic to find the genius of premodern exegesis. A review of Craig Carter. https://t.co/L5QCCi8ve4

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

"If you have no ceremonies, no habits, which are exact, rigorous and familiar, how can you reach toward the actuality of faith, or even a moral life, except vaguely?" Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prizing-winning poet, who died January 17

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

The "constructed view of reality": "There is no lighthouse keeper. There is no lighthouse. There is no dry land. There are only people floating about on rafts made of their own imaginations, and there is a sea." John Dominic Crossan, The Dark Interval (1975)

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Auden once wrote, “The same rules apply to self-examination as apply to auricular confession: Be brief, be blunt, be gone." Nothing is more exhausting than ceaseless self-examination, self-reflection, self-criticism. Alan Jacobs

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

"Christianity is now a majority-world faith whose greatest areas of growth, strength, and vitality lie in places that have not been captive to the assumptions of Christendom or Western modernity." Craig Van Gelder & Dwight Zscheile @CraigVanG

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Has the Book of James gone missing from the NT?

Pure religion, helping orphans and widows in their misfortune.
Shunning prejudice if we possess faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Not daring to dishonor the poor.
Showing our faith with our deeds.
Not slandering brothers & sisters.

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

"I believe that you either love the work or the rewards. Life is a lot easier if you love the work." novelist Jane Smiley

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

A statement by NIH director Francis Collins responding to the first gene-edited baby experiment in Hong Kong:
https://t.co/ki5x1yVbCr

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Tastefulness is just small-mindedness, pretending to be art. And Christmas isn’t tasteful, isn’t simple, isn’t clean, isn’t elegant. Give me the tacky and the exuberant and the wild, to represent the impossibly boisterous fact that God has intruded in this world. @JosephBottum

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

A wonderful poem by Scott Cairns, Adventures in NT Greek: Nous.
. . . regard
the breath's cool descent, a stream from mouth
to throat to the furnace of the heart.
Observe that queer, cool confluence of breath
& blood, & do your thinking there.
https://t.co/OyDNzqSMQM

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

A big win for Lipscomb's men's basketball team. @lipscombmbb

[Lipscomb Men's Basketball @LipscombMBB]

FINAL: Lipscoomb 73, #18 TCU 64

It's our first win over a ranked opponent in the program's DI history! What a win from the boys! #HornsUp #beLieve

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Lipscomb men's basketball team tops SMU Mustangs in Dallas.
https://t.co/eFCmnnupTf

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Lipscomb's College of Bible & Ministry conducted its inaugural "Provision Workshop" this week. Theme: "Leading Difficult People," facilitated by Dr Steve Joiner. Church leaders from 7 states attended.

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Lipscomb Bison soccer, men and women--amazing!

[Atlantic Sun Conference @ASUNSports]

.@LipscombBisons is the only mid-major university to advance both their Women's & Men's Team to the @NCAASoccer Second Round & one of nine programs in all of @NCAA to advance both sides.

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Lee Camp's @TokensShow will complete its 11th season this Sunday night at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. I'll be there!
https://t.co/NcIW1BaI96

[LipscombWSOC @LipscombWSOC]

Women's soccer makes history with first round NCAA upset of MSU https://t.co/il976qnRQa

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

We are excited to welcome Lipscomb's new chair of Undergraduate Bible, Dr. Steven Bonner: https://t.co/YWdQKC3mVh

[Leonard Allen @CBMdean]

Lee Camp, Lipscomb theologian and host of the @TokensShow, on how early Christians were both radical conservatives and orthodox liberals:
https://t.co/fqA6SXuHRf