I finally got my copy. It's the culmination of my nine years at BJU Press and the one book of mine most likely to actually get read: Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption, a 12th grade Bible textbook for Christian and home schools. But I can't say the book is...
Theology
The Distinction Between Legal and Moral
The god of [any given] system is the fountainhead of [its] morality. This is why Christians have an easy distinction in their minds between “legal” and “moral.” But for those who believe that there is no intelligence beyond our corporate and collective intelligence,...
Never Knowing Where We’re Going We Can Never Go Astray
Read this while poking around the Internet for philosopher Richard Rorty's obituary: Michael Williams, philosophy department chairman at Johns Hopkins University, said Dr. Rorty, one of his mentors, "taught the lesson there are no fixed and permanent foundations for...
Climate Change and Epistemology
Global climate change is probably my favorite current illustration for the role authority plays in epistemology, and this EconTalk discussion with Matt Ridley explores this very interplay in an interesting and accessible way. Ridley is a "lukewarmer," not a full...
Great Insight on Love
A great insight on love from my friend, and fellow Jonathan Edwards dissertator, Ryan Martin: Love in popular culture could never be cultivated, or else it would be inauthentic. Inauthenticity is adding any kind of layer to what is most natural and “free” (cf. 2 Pet...
Augustine on Inerrancy
I searched for probably two hours for a fantastic Augustine quote I simply cannot believe I didn't save or blog already. I could not find it anywhere, and I'm pretty OCD with my notes and files. So I resorted to Quora. Thank you, Quora! I asked, St. Augustine once...
CFR
Walsh and Middleton make a good point about the Creation-Fall-Redemption story of Scripture: Christians may tend to think of the Bible as all about sin (fall) and salvation (redemption). But without creation, neither of these concepts makes sense. What is sin but the...
New Kevin DeYoung Book
Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015), 158 pp. Here's a PDF sample, and here’s a study guide. DeYoung is using his gifts to serve the church; as I've said before, he's a gifted popularizer. But that doesn't...
A Pair of Absolute Must-Read New York Times Opinion Columns on Homosexuality
1. Bruni This is what a lot of people genuinely think about the conservative Christian view of homosexuality. You need to know what they're saying. Here's a tiny, chilling excerpt: Our debate about religious freedom should include a conversation about freeing...
Kurt Aland Says “Nein” to Textual Errors in the New Testament
Interesting video featuring legendary New Testament textual critic Kurt Aland: At the very end of the video there is an interview with Aland, and from it I took the following stills. First the interviewer (in German, of course) asks Aland whether there might be any...
A Real-Life Heather on Her Two Mommies
An important insight from a real-life Heather with two mommies, who writes with empathy and respect for her mother, but who grew up needing a dad: Gay marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage, but also parenting. It promotes and normalizes a family structure that...
Three Good Reasons to Resist Making Relativism Our Latest Bogeyman
Merold Westphal on hermeneutics and relativism: We are easily frightened by the specter of "anything goes," and there is no shortage of those willing to play on this fear in order to imply their own absoluteness. But there are three good reasons to resist this fear:...