eponymity
I named this site marklwardjr because I wanted to avoid the temptations of Internet anonymity. I've wondered as time has passed whether the site's name looks self-promoting. Hopefully, the content speaks for itself. It would be foolish for any blogger to seek the chief seat at the blogosfeast. For those readers who are willing to join me in my openness, my new blog design includes Google Friend Connect. I'd love to get to know you, or at least a small avatar of you.
Hat Steal
This is not just a hat tip; it's a hat steal. I had to get this absolutely brilliant content (written by a fellow graduate of my alma mater!) to both of my readers. Moisés Silva is an exegetically and linguistically careful scholar, and this is brilliant, just... brilliant! It is approximately the year 2790. The most powerful nation on earth occupies a large territory in Central Africa, and its citizens speak Swahili. The United States and other English-speaking countries have long ceased to...
A Growing Chorus
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 Reading, latimes.com Thoughtful people keep saying this. We who aspire to thoughtfulness ought to listen.
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 faculty members like John Broadus made deep sacrifices, too. The seminary was firmly Calvinist in those days, as was the denomination, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy hadn't happened yet—so it was a dynamic quite...
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 Twitter's existence. Here's why: it has brought out of the woodwork some talented, gospel-centered micro-bloggers whose voices would not have provoked me to love and good works otherwise. Actual fundamentalist leaders are still...