Here's some humbling advice I read from Iain Murray. I boiled it down to what was most humbling and pointed for my own heart: Read the best books and only the best and read them with a pencil in your hand or with some other system so you can recall even years later...
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Godless in the New York Times
I love the New York Times, I really do. It's just quality. And I think articles supporting my positions are more powerful when written from the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; e.g., check out this one from a while back. (I'm sorry, but I can't stand...
Divine Light Show
The God of all creation put on a beautiful show for me and my wife last night. Here are just two shots of that show I got from our front porch!
Stanley Fish and the Norming Norm
Who gets to define "normal"? Some in the deaf community do not want cochlear implants because giving them hearing would deny their identity. One sufferer of autism likewise wrote that the doctors searching for a cure for his condition are well nigh guilty of attempted...
“Fundamentalist” vs. “Critical”
Some startling headlines are coming out about a major international survey of attitudes toward the Bible. Fundamentalists, it seems, don't know their Bibles as well as Christians (and even non-Christians?) of the more liberal sort. They think Jesus wrote the Gospels...
Married, Hitched, Plunged
I am married. I have gotten hitched. I have taken the plunge. It was well worth it. I wish I had done this long ago. Laura is the best wife I could ever have hoped for, far better than I knew—and I aim to find out more. I wanted greater holiness for myself out of this...
Christian Worldliness Skewered by a Secular Jew
This is too good not to pass on immediately—from a newsletter I write for BJU that goes out to churches: Evangelical Christians have a “deeply neurotic relationship with popular culture,” says journalist Hanna Rosin in Slate. Evangelicals in America are like the Old...
Christ and Culture Revisited; General Critiques of Niebuhr
In chapter 2 of Christ and Culture Revisited Carson offers some general critiques of Niebuhr which do not tie themselves to individual paradigms in Niebuhr's five-fold taxonomy. Here's one line of critique Carson gives: Niebuhr wants to see various biblical authors as...
Fundamentalism and “An Evangelical Manifesto”
Os Guinness, Richard Mouw, Tim George, David Neff, and others have released "An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment." Justin Taylor has already provided a good summary (with little comment). I thought I would comment on...
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (5)
The final three views in Niebuhr's five-fold taxonomy are all forms of "Christ above culture." 5. Christ the Transformer of Culture Summary: While the previous two views were respectively synthetic (Christ above culture) and dualistic (Christ and culture in paradox),...
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (4)
The final three views in Niebuhr's five-fold taxonomy are all forms of "Christ above culture." 4. Christ and Culture in Paradox Summary: While the previous view was synthetic, this view is dualistic. "In one sense, this group is much like the first, those who hold to...
Christ and Culture Revisited: Carson’s Summary of Niebuhr’s Taxonomy (3)
The final three views in Niebuhr's five-fold taxonomy are all forms of "Christ above culture." 3. Christ above Culture Summary: This view, which Niebuhr thinks is the majority position among Christians throughout history, believes that "Christ and the world cannot be...