What I'm struggling with is the encroachment of the buzz, the sense that there is something out there that merits my attention, when in fact it's mostly just a series of disconnected riffs and fragments that add up to the anxiety of the age.—From The Lost Art of...
Mark Ward
Al Mohler on the Conservative Takeover of Southern Seminary
I've read about 200 pages of Gary Wills' history of Southern Seminary, including the final section on the Mohler years (I couldn't wait!), and I'm really enjoying it. God used James Boyce to perform Herculean tasks to keep the seminary alive in the early years, and...
One Good Reason to Be on Twitter
I said it, too: "Who wants to know what other people had for breakfast?" But I signed up for Twitter anyway, dutifully, because my blog's subtitle is "theology, tech, theology tech." And I've found that, despite one problem I will—dutifully—note, I am glad for...
Free Cartoon Fridays (Aug 21): “The Real Problem with Fuller Theological Seminary”
Welcome back to Free Cartoon Friday! Check back each week for a free cartoon I failed to sell to Christian pastors' magazines in 2005! Click image for full size, or go to the Cartoons page. Note: I do not think Richard Mouw is a communist or mass murderer. This is...
Follow-up on a Very Old Post
Way back in February of '08 I was excited about a book I was reading and I blogged about it. The book was Mark D. Thompson's excellent A Clear and Present Word: The Clarity of Scripture. A commenter recently happened upon that post and asked me if I had any further...
Free Cartoon Fridays (Aug 14): “Mesopotamian Inquirer”
Every Friday for the next nine weeks will be Free Cartoon Friday! Check back each week for a free cartoon I failed to sell to Christian pastors' magazines in 2005! Click image for full size, or go to the Cartoons page. What I would really like is a real cartoonist...
Bruce Ware Applies the Trinity
I just finished Bruce Ware's Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationship, Roles, and Relevance. It's quite clear what century the book was written in because Ware focuses a lot of attention—as well he should—on what the Trinity means for gender roles. But I found it...
Greek and the Layperson
I wish for a day when no one but Greek students and avid C. S. Lewis fans knows the Greek words for love. Knowing them never seems to be much help to people in interpreting Scripture; frequently, instead, that knowledge is an impediment.
Farmteam Community Church
American Idol's amazing popularity makes it a very interesting subject for cultural criticism. This year's win of a former worship leader over an androgynous rocker raised the following question on GetReligion, an insightful blog: Has Sunday morning in megachurch...
Shelby Steele: Affirmative Action Doesn’t Solve the Real Problem
Challenging insight on race from public intellectual Shelby Steele in the Washington Post: Affirmative action has always been more about the restoration of legitimacy to American institutions than the uplift of blacks and other minorities. For 30 years after its...