Yesterday and today I've been watching some of the sessions of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission National Conference; they're streaming live. Here's the schedule. The theme is issues of gender and sexuality, which I happen to be writing on at this very...
Theology
The Self-Dynamiting Doctrine of Papal Infallibility
A faithful and intelligent Catholic, New York Times opinion writer Ross Douthat, offers some helpful reflections on papal infallibility: On paper, that doctrine seems to grant extraordinary power to the pope—since he cannot err, the First Vatican Council declared in...
Rethinking Rethinking Jepthah’s Foolish Vow
Evangelical OT scholar Miles Van Pelt, co-author of a biblical Hebrew textbook and academic dean at RTS Jackson, knows a thing or ten about the Old Testament. And I only know a thing. But I still respectfully disagree with the small article he posted yesterday on...
The Declaration of Independence Proves to Be An Illusion
Satan led humankind into covenant disobedience. He tempted humankind to reject the rule of Yahweh and to issue their "declaration of independence" from their Creator. The consequences are devastating. When communion with the Creator of life is broken, death inevitably...
No Popes for You
I just posted "No Popes for You" over at the BJU School of Religion blog. Check it out.
A Really Great Post on What Evangelicals Give Up When They Give Up Genesis 1-11
My good friend Brian Collins has written a really great post you have to read at the BJU School of Religion blog—which you have to subscribe to. Brian presents some important exegetical evidence for the young earth creation position: The suffering of the non-human...
Chantry vs. Frame
A blog reader sent me this post some months ago, a critique of John Frame by Reformed Baptist pastor Tom Chantry (son of Walter). I'm certain Tom is a brother in Christ with whom I would share a great deal of agreement, and I had no wish to write a public critique of...
The Allure of the Iron Cage: Reactions to Steven D. Smith’s The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
I hope to publish the paper I read at the Bible Faculty Summit, but for my blog audience I'll go ahead and offer the pre-release PDF and the audio (downloadable). The audio is also available below (no video included): [video...
The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
Read this this morning: And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in...
Is Genesis 1-2 Poetry? A Bloggable Thought from the Bible Faculty Summit
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Bible Faculty Summit (here's their brand new website, made last night real late and not quite complete...), held this year at Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. Here's just one bloggable thought coming out of the...
Classic Fish
Forget Van Til—the secret of his unreadability is out: he actually wrote in Dutch but used English letters! No wonder no one can understand the guy! It's time you got your presuppositionalism the easy and fun way: Stanley Fish. Read this, it's astounding.
George Marsden on Point of View
I've been thinking a good deal about what George Marsden wrote—in a book I have thoroughly enjoyed (two chapters to go and I'm really eager to see what he says in the final one): Let me say a word about point of view. One of the conventions of the mid-twentieth...