Theology That Bites Back
A workshop presented at ACCS 2024 Introduction: When Christians are encouraged to “budget for” sin as they build institutions, we often think that the only threat we are talking about would be overt moral failures. A teacher is found to have a real porn problem, or you discover that the bookkeeper has been skimming some …
“This situation reveals how much the conservatives have been out-maneuvered as they have been playing Machen-and-the-liberals in their mama’s backyard with little wooden sticks.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 778
A Case of Nerves . . .: Now There’s a Stretch of Pretty Nice: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Yeah, Like That: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Featured Product: Jokes I Like to Tell:Over the years, I have accumulated a store of jokes and whatnot. They generally spurt out on random occasions, and some …
“This means that it has to delight my soul that God loves those on the other side of our particular theological divides more than I have ever loved anything or anybody. It needs to delight me that we will all spend eternity together, as it does. As so I pray God’s blessing on the resurrection celebrations of all God’s children, and I pray for a double blessing on the celebrations of my adversaries. This resurrection life is a powerful thing, and gets into everything . . . even our disputes.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 777
From the Credenda Archives (1995)Volume 7/Number 5 The problem can be called by many names. The men of our generation have had a failure of nerve. They have abdicated their responsibilities, and we are consequently in the midst of a crisis of leadership. Men have fallen, to use the biblical term, into the sin of …
“If the Reformed tradition were the Mississippi River, these river boat pilots have managed to get their vessel grounded just south of Wichita. As I put it in a recent comment elsewhere, I really don’t understand why the C students think they get to grade everybody else’s papers.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 776
Letter to the Editor: I enjoyed your recent post on child communion. I am curious if you know of any resources that point to the early church’s practice of this, or historical ...
“One use of the law cannot be made the over-arching essence of that law—because that would make it impossible to employ the other uses.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 774
From the Credenda Archives (1996)Volume 8/Number 1 The unthinkable does not always remain that way. Thirty years ago, if one were to talk about the possible crackup of the United States, the result would have been a good deal of laughter. But the world is a very different place today, and such a suggestion now …
