Richard Mouw* makes an interesting comment in his book on common grace: perhaps the only way to really know how well a moral theology does is to see it worked out in a group: We can fully understand the claims of a theological perspective only if we attempt to see...
Mark Ward
Gordon College May Lose Accreditation Over Opposition to Homosexuality
I am not an alarmist, but this is really serious: Gordon College may lose its accreditation over its opposition to homosexuality. Carl Trueman was so right six years ago. I'll put up his money quote on the blog again: What is becoming increasingly clear is that the...
Review: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book will need to gestate for a while. There's no way I can write a review at the moment. I can only offer initial...
Review: A More Sure Word: Which Bible Can You Trust?
A More Sure Word: Which Bible Can You Trust? by R.B. Ouellette My rating: 1 of 5 stars A Sincere Thanks I believe R.B. Ouellette made a sincere effort to write with a gracious spirit; and from what I can tell about the publisher and editors of this book (West Coast...
Pure Pleasure in Being Praised
I have small children, and I think of this all the time: No one can enter heaven except as a child; and nothing is so obvious in a child—not in a conceited child, but in a good child—as its great and undisguised pleasure in being praised. Not only in a child, either,...
Review: Reverting to Type: a Reader’s Story
Reverting to Type: a Reader's Story by Alan Jacobs My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just really like Jacobs, and I read most of what he writes in print and online. I found it really enjoyable while rocking my newborn in the wee hours to hear Jacobs provide an...
Review: The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief by George M. Marsden My rating: 4 of 5 stars Perceptive, readable, fascinating. What really stuck out to me was that the intellectuals of the 1950s were facing the same dissolution...
A Really Great Post on What Evangelicals Give Up When They Give Up Genesis 1-11
My good friend Brian Collins has written a really great post you have to read at the BJU School of Religion blog—which you have to subscribe to. Brian presents some important exegetical evidence for the young earth creation position: The suffering of the non-human...
The Death of the Secular Order
#150184538 / gettyimages.com Christian sociologist Kevin Flatt: The secular order is a way of structuring culture and society based on the functional assumption that the cosmos is inherently meaningless, devoid of any higher power or ordering principle, and so it...
The Grand Narrative of Liberalism
Below is a one-paragraph summary of the grand narrative of liberal progressives, written by then-evangelical sociologist Christian Smith (in this book). Despite Smith's credentials and acumen, you don't necessarily expect evangelical sociologists to be fair—even when...