The most e-mailed article at nytimes.com right now is opinion writer Thomas L. Friedman's "Why I Am Pro Life." Friedman, who comes from the left side of the opinion roster, argues that the right has hijacked the abortion debate by winning the title "pro life." He...
Mark Ward
Why Study Greek at All?
Dr. Rod Decker knows Greek. Very well. And he's thought carefully about how and why to learn it, how and when—and when not—to use it in preaching. I urge students in Greek classes, especially higher level courses, to read this paper by Dr. Decker. In it you'll find...
The Secularist’s Religion
Unbelief is not described in Scripture as absence of belief, but as mis-directed belief. Religion ... is man’s ineradicable situation. —H. Evan Runner
Review: Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission
Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission by Tim Chester My rating: 4 of 5 stars The times they are a changin’. If America ever was a Christian nation, it certainly isn’t one now. It would do us good, therefore, to listen to conservative Christians whose nation...
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[All knowledge] proceeds out of faith. All science presupposes that we ourselves believe; presupposes a belief that the laws of thinking are correct; presupposes beliefs about life; and presupposes above all faith in the principles from which we proceed…. The conflict is not between faith and science, but between the claim that the present state of the cosmos is normal or abnormal…. It is not faith and science, but two scientific systems that stand, each with their own faith, over against each other…. They are both in earnest, disputing with each other across the entire domain of life and cannot desist from the attempt to pull to the ground the entire edifice of each other’s contradictory claims.
Kuyper on Overlapping Magisteria
[All knowledge] proceeds out of faith. All science presupposes that we ourselves believe; presupposes a belief that the laws of thinking are correct; presupposes beliefs about life; and presupposes above all faith in the principles from which we proceed.... The...
Frame on Churches in Politics
[One] danger [for politically active churches], of course, is that churches will get so caught up in political activism that they lose sight of Christ. The solution is not to avoid political issues, but to see politics as [Abraham] Kuyper did, as an opportunity to...
A Fundamentalism Worth Saving
It's time to resurrect a favorite essay of mine, Kevin Bauder's "A Fundamentalism Worth Saving." I read this thing multiple times on my Palm IIIxe back in the mid 2000s, and I noticed recently that it was languishing in an ugly format on the AACCS site. So I have...
Instagram vs. Kodak
I’m not a business guy. I’m a blogger. A purveyor of amateur opinions. But now that I’ve worked in a business for six years, I’ve come to recognize that some business savvy is required to get things done—even and especially if you hold none of the purse strings. (I...
Review: Charles Hodge: New Sideold School Presbyterian
Charles Hodge: New Sideold School Presbyterian by Andrew W. Hoffecker My rating: 4 of 5 stars Author Andrew Hoffecker said in an interview that his study of Charles Hodge actually arose from reading about fundamentalism. While Hoffecker was a PhD student at Brown...
Surprised by the Bible
My students are ... disproportionately unchurched (and unsynagogued and unmosqued). An astonishing number of them—15 out of 38 in the last class I asked—come to college having never set foot inside a house of worship. Despite the fact that they are extraordinarily...