The next book that I shall blog through, Lord willing, will be John Franke’s new book, Manifold Witness. This first post will consist of two parts — the first being a quick take on the cover, title, blurbs, foreword and preface. The second will consist a brief statement of my presuppositions in conducting a review …
A Vine-Laden Discussion
Here are my notes from a discussion we had yesterday at the NSA grad student forum. As expected, the discussion with Peter there answered most of these questions — the only place where a disagreement simpliciter occurs is in my third point below, on the nature of typology. So here are my notes, and sorry …
Gravitron Fairies
One of the more obvious things about doing television gigs is the compression of time. Everything has to be discussed in soundbytes and bumpersticker aphorisms. Five minutes is a long time, and twenty minutes stretches out in front of you like a highway in Montana. All the folks we dealt with were very kind, and …
Killing and Dying
Just a quick note on a nagging problem in hermeneutics, a problem that pomo monkeyshines help serve to highlight. To the extent that pomo thinking robs us of an authoritative word, the more it tries to leave us with a series of bad choices, all of them arbitrary and capricious. Here is the dilemma: As …
Geez Louise
So, a friend informs me, Brian McLaren is observing Ramadan this year. I was minding my own business, see, and my friend sent me this link. Check it out your own self here. He sent me the link, I am convinced, to see if I would go off like a bottle rocket, all the while …
Calvin on Young Earth Creation as a “Chief Doctrine of the Faith”
[Speaking of predestination], Calvin says, “But if their shamelessness deters us, we shall have to keep secret the chief doctrines of the faith, almost none of which they or their like leave untouched by blasphemy. An obstinate person would be no less insolently puffed up on hearing that within the essence of God there three …
My Little Plug
Wilson Review from Collision Movie on Vimeo.
The New Atheism
An interview about the “new atheism” that Creation Ministries International gave me can be found here.
The Right Kind of Antsy
I hope you are getting antsy without getting too antsy. The film is made and distribution is being discussed in the proper quarters. If you go here, and look at the bottom of the page, there is a place to enter your email address so that you will get updates on the release date and …
A Very Brief Summary
By “emergent,” I do not refer to those who have fallen away from the faith entirely. We have always had apostates. By emergent I mean those who want to retain some kind of recognizable connection to the evangelical movement, but who want to do the hep cat thing. The emergents are kids from the junior …