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...
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 filed under "Humor."
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 reflections. Over a year on, I can say that there are two things that have really stuck with me from this book: God goes with His Word. Or as Thompson put it, "God accompanies his own word, bringing about the appropriate human...