ἀγάπη Rejoinders
I recently posted a few of the kinds of statements my dissertation is opposing. For example, a Bible textbook avers, “Love is not an emotion, but an act of the will. Feelings may ebb and…
Regeneration and the Second Great Commandment
May the absolute necessity of regeneration never stop me from doing good to my neighbor when it is in my power to do it. A … combination of theological principle and careerist caution meant that…
Outsourcing Prayer
“Information Age Prayer,” provides “a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day.” For $3.95 a month, you get “the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be…
Enduring Counsel from B.B. Warfield
I regularly return to this enduring counsel from B. B. Warfield—required reading for all BJU seminarians who take Systematic Theology: A minister must be learned, on pain of being utterly incompetent for his work. But before…
Capitalism Samizdat
I read nearly everything Carl Trueman puts out; I always find his analyses helpful. And he writes very well English. And he’s a nice, uh, bloke, I happen to know from personal experience. His recent…