After something of a lull, I am picking up my conversation with Green Baggins over my book “Reformed” Is Not Enough. Chapter 13 is on church unity, and Lane and I actually have a healthy bit of agreement here. For example, he agrees with me on the legitimacy of receiving Roman Catholic baptisms “in order …
Frank the Baptist Nails It
I wanted to promote something said by my friend Frank Turk in the comments section of a previous post. Frank is one of those baptists, and, as such, he sees the intramural presbyterian dust-up much more clearly than some of the participants do. Here is Frank, with one of the best observations that this whole …
The Pope’s Easter Hat
Scott Clark has had some more to say, and he says it here. As part of his conclusion, he says: So, let the covenantal moralists, the New Perspectivists, and Federal Visionists (and related folks) have their semi-Pelagian grace and cooperation with grace system. If they want to try to stand, on the basis of grace …
FV Critics and Grad School
Critical thinking skills are essential in reading comprehension. Someone has done us a valuable service here in applying this truth to the FV debate. Take a look.
Baptism and Salvation
Matt Yonke, the young man who posted a blog piece on how the FV affected him in a Rome-ward direction, has posted a follow-up question on baptism. Someone else has reasonably asked for a contrasting response from an FV person. So this post is my response to Matt. His question is here: “Here is an …
FV As the Death Star
Just a quick point for the record. In partisan politics, spin doctors will seize on any event and work it to fit with the agenda, the talking points, and the memo that they got just before going on the air. In a presidential debate, a candidate could perform at about the level of Miss South …
Catholic Evangelicalism
With the FV controversy in mind, I was asked this last week whether I considered myself more “basically”evangelical or more “basically” Reformed. With the one qualifier that if you believe both, then to answer the question is not to say which you believe to be “more true,” let me address it this way. As I …
Near Italy, Kinda
The other day my attention was drawn to a post made by a former NSA student, Matt Yonke. That post is here. The reaction to it among some of our TR critics was swift and beside the point — an example can be seen here, if Scott Clark doesn’t do something to break the link …
I Love Analogies
Yes, it is true. I do love analogies. Someone who is aware of this fact suggested a hot one to Lane over at Greenbaggins. The Louisiana Presbytery’s exoneration of Steve Wilkins is like the Arizona Republican party exonerating John McCain. In response, someone in the comments asked why we shouldn’t just accept the decision of …
Just For Fun . . .
Here is the cover that went to the printers yesterday. You don’t need a secret decoder ring, but it might help.