While flipping through my latest edition of Chronicles — a magazine I recommend to you, by the way — I came across an article by Jack Trotter entitled “Conservative Education: Caveat Emptor!” It was a good article, and while I didn’t agree with all his criticisms of the other colleges he discussed, I really appreciated …
Just a Good Idea
“This is life in the visible church, and I really think our discussions of clerical garb should always start with the muck boots” (Against the Church, p. 178).
In a World Gone Crazy
In a world gone crazy, it is important for us to learn how to see the root causes. I use the phrase “root causes” deliberately, because it is the kind of thing that liberals love to appeal to, whether we are talking about race riots here, or barbarity in the Middle East. But when they …
Like a Postprandial Sloth
I have to say that I didn’t expect that reaction. Courtship is a hotter/bigger topic these days than I realized. What I would like to do is throw together a series of brief responses to some of the issues raised in the comments. The results may or may not come together as a coherent post. …
Why Courtship Is Fundamentally Awed
Thomas Umstattd Jr. recently made a splash with his article “Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed.” To be perfectly honest, I thought a number of his points were very good, like frosted flakes in the bowl glinting in the morning light of your quiet breakfast nook. But I also thought, retaining the honesty theme here, that …
The Spirit Blows Where He Wills
“There are plenty of born again people who wouldn’t call it that, and there are plenty of evangelicals who need to get saved. Life is messy” (Against the Church, p. 175).
Proclamation and Theology
Title: Proclamation and Theology Author: William H. Willimon Genre: Religion Publisher: Abingdon Press Release Date: 2005-01 Pages: 106 William Willimon, recognized as a master interpreter of theology and the practice of preaching, draws on classical theology and practical experience to provide a cogent, powerful explanation of what it means to live the preaching life. (Christian) …
No High Like the Most High!
Okay, this is for all you people, like me, who need to get out more. Apparently there is this Christian rock star, Vicky Beeching, who has written worship music that lots of people sing, and who has come out of the closet as being something that rhymes with say. You can read a brief interview …
Sure Thing
Like the Grand Tetons
“I am a product of this evangelical culture. I am conversant in it and, in some ways, at home in it. But after Jimmy Carter made it okay for everybody to be ‘born again,’ North American evangelicalism exploded and became a huge mountain range of cotton candy, and of course, that kind of thing makes …