Author: Jonathan Dodson

Relevant Magazine’s forthcoming issue has a cover story devoted to Ben Harper. Here are some quotes from the interview that lasted until 3am after a recent show:

“I love the concept that nature walks us at one with God,” he says. “When I stand in front of the General Sherman tree and the sequoias in California, I feel in touch with a greater power. There’s no question that there is a higher power. I just don’t want it to be exclusive to me.”

“I wasn’t raised in the Church, but I’ve always had a church deep in my heart,” Harper says.

Robie and I had a wonderful trip to San Francisco–many thanks to my folks caring for our kids while we were gone! We saw the sights, had an afternoon in Sauscilito, caught a Giants game when Bonds hit his 761st homer, drove breathtaking Hwy 1, spent a day in Santa Cruz, where we rode a roller coaster and I showed Robie where I learned to surf. We also visited Elm Street Mission where I served the homeless of Santa Cruz ten summers ago.

It was joyful, restful and fun…refueling for us in a number of ways.

This new book looks like a great reference tool. Tom Oden gives it a hearty endorsement:

Ron Heine has written Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church for a wide variety of readers: pastors, New Testament and patristics scholars, and general lay readers. This is a very helpful introduction to the ways the ancient Christian writers viewed the Scriptures. Heine comes to the subject with a significant grasp of both primary sources and contemporary scholarship. The argument is illuminating and inspiring.”–Thomas C. Oden

Read an excerpt here.

I will be in San Fran with my lovely wife until Tuesday. My thoughtful brother, Luke Dodson (Masters from Oxford in Sociology), has agreed to guest blog a few posts. I’ll look forward to reading them when I am back. Enjoy!