John Frame in “Machen’s Warrior Children,” regarding theological polemics in his community (and, let’s face it, ours): Overall, the quality of thought displayed in these polemics has not been a credit to the Reformed tradition. Writers have gone to great lengths to...
Mark Ward
Frame Summarizes Van Til
I really do not have a very good understanding of the Van Til/Clark debates or the Frame/Ligonier debates, but I hope to grow in that understanding. These are all serious men worth taking seriously. For what it’s worth, here’s how Frame summarizes Van Til’s...
Star Trek and Richard Dawkins
It was a beautiful fall day for a seven-year-old kid to be playing outside, but when I came back into the house my dad was watching people in weird pajamas striding around on a spaceship. That was 1990, I believe, and my first episode of Star Trek: The Next...
Love Your Neighborhood as Yourself
At the turn of each new year, our whole church gathers together for Sunday School for several weeks. It’s a chance to touch special topics that the pastoral staff and elders want everyone to hear about. One of those is the set of outreach ministries we have to the...
iPad
Now we know:
Found!
A friend sent my request for help to a friend, and the lost egalitarian/complementarian illustration has been found! (Thank you!) Only my memory didn’t serve me with 100% accuracy. Here’s the original: David Gushee did not convert to complementarianism, but perhaps...
Carl Trueman States the Fundamentalist Position
Carl Trueman is having a friendly but serious and important debate with Paul Helm. Both are conservative evangelical men, but as American conservative Christians tend to fall on either side of the Billy Graham issue, so British Christians like Trueman and Helm fall on...
Incidentally…
While I was doing some research for a high school Bible lesson on gender roles, I ran across this article at the Council for Biblical Equality. The article includes this: Theologian Wayne Grudem wants us to believe that the Greek word kephale (translated into English...
Please Help!
Several years ago, in something like 2005 (?), I read an article (?) by an evangelical theologian (?) who had been an egalitarian. His story was something like this: I was an evangelical Christian egalitarian. My wife and I split our marriage in half: everything was...
Humpty Dumpty on Ἀγάπη
Humpty Dumpty took the book and looked at it carefully. “That seems to be done right—” he began. “You're holding it upside down!” Alice interrupted. “To be sure I was!” Humpty Dumpty said gaily as she turned it round for him. “I thought it looked a little queer. As I...