Kris Song

About Kris Song

Kris Song is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity studying under Professor Grant Macaskill. He also teaches Greek and Exegesis at Talbot School of Theology on an adjunct basis. In a former life, Kris used to practice as an attorney focusing on U.S. federal litigation. His current doctoral research is on Pauline pneumatology and his research interests include church unity, race relations, missional hermeneutics, and religious freedom/civil liberties. Kris loves his wife and three kids, the company of good friends, and music that has the ring of truth to it.

Some Reflections on the Los Angeles Theology Conference 2017

Jan 15, 2017

This Year’s Event and Theme The Fifth Annual Los Angeles Theology Conference (LATC) took place this week at Biola University. Fred Sanders and Oliver Crisp (together in a joint effort with Biola University, Fuller Seminary, and Zondervan Academic) deserve credit for the inception and continuing vitality of the conference. Out-of-town guests expecting the inviting sunshine of sunny Southern California this year were greeted instead with the hardest rainfall the area has seen in recent memory....

President-Elect Trump: “Nobody Knows Anything.” What Can We Learn?

Nov 9, 2016

“I went to an Ivy League School. I’m very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words.” https://youtu.be/v22uq-DWGg8 It was simply natural (albeit mean) for many to use the words Donald Trump and “ignorant” or (even lazier) “stupid” in the same sentence. NOTE: This only applies to Trump, not his supporters (who have clearly expressed they have as many reasons in favor of him as they do against Hillary Clinton and the...

Is This the “End of Protestantism?” A Review of Peter Leithart’s Latest Book on Church Unity

Oct 27, 2016

LEITHART, Peter J. The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2016. pp. 225. $21.99 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-1-58743-377-1. As of 2003,[1] there are roughly one thousand distinct Christian denominations in the United States. It was the prayer of Jesus that his children will join together as “one” as God is one (John 17:21). What’s wrong with this picture? Peter Leithart’s The End of Protestantism takes aim squarely at evangelical...

Maximize Your Work Time in Four Realistic Steps : Modest Thoughts From a Self-Noted Expert in Wasting Time

Oct 13, 2016

It’s been about five months since I joined my fantastic friends at the Two Cities writing team and I’m fresh out of content before this week’s deadline. So I imagine I am doing what most content-editors opt for when they’re out of material — countdown list with shameful, click-baity title. Other “titles” considered and self-loathingly deleted for this post: What We Talk About When We Talk About Time. [Delete, Delete]. Five Strange, But Effective Ways...

Neither Jew, Nor Greek, Neither Republican, Nor Democrat – Christian Unity in a Divided Age

Sep 29, 2016

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 If we imagine Paul writing this to the churches in America today, we might add: “Neither Republican, nor Democrat.” At a time when the church appears to divide along political, social, and racial lines in painfully visible ways, Paul’s appeal to unity is profoundly...

My Farewell to Vin Scully: Five Glimpses into Vin’s Greatness

Sep 15, 2016

Anyone who knows me well can attest to Vin Scully’s importance in my life. His gentle voice, now warmed over by time to a grandfatherly lilt, is a perpetual fixture in our house every April to September (and by the grace of God, most Octobers). That voice. That unmistakable, inimitable voice has been with me for so many years now that I can only think of it in terms of companionship; something deeply personal; like a...

The ‘Blurred Lines’ of Plagiarism, Ownership, and Christian Practice

Aug 31, 2016

I recall as a first year law student attending a lecture on music copyright by Clyde Spillenger. The professor played a recording of Sweet Georgia Brown by Bernie and Pinkard (the “Harlem Globetrotters song,” if that helps). He then played a folk recording of Hava Nagila (that one Jewish song that you know). He asked students to consider the respective similarities in the songs’ top-line melody (there were none), its chord structure (again no relation), and other...

Domesticated Jesus and Highlighter Christianity

Aug 18, 2016

Lesslie Newbigin tells an illuminating story about his time as a foreign missionary to India. In the Hindu Ramakrishna monastery, there is a gallery of portraits of the great religious teachers of humankind. Among them is a portrait of Jesus at which worship is offered every Christmas Day. Lest anyone mistake this worship for a gesture toward conversion in India, Newbigin explains that this is simply “the co-option of Jesus into the Hindu worldview. Jesus...

Why Pro-Life Issues Are Not Enough of a Reason For Christians to Support Trump

Aug 4, 2016

In an impossibly unnerving Presidential election year, where no sensible choice seems possible for Christians, there emerges a tendency among Christians (and other morally like-minded people) to “choose life” and vote for Trump in the mode of the reluctant, single-issue voter. A recent example of this can be seen in Wayne Grudem’s recent controversial endorsement of Trump as the “morally good choice” for President. [1] Reviewing his essay again, it is clear to me that...

Review of The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art by Luke Timothy Johnson

Jul 21, 2016

JOHNSON, Luke Timothy. The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015. pp. 256. $25.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-0-8028-0383-2. Luke Timothy Johnson’s The Revelatory Body offers the bold thesis that “the human body is the preeminent arena of God’s revelation in the world.”[1] While many will welcome the claim that the human body possesses divine revelatory potential, many others will likely take serious issue with the position that the human body takes preeminence...

About Kris Song

Some Reflections on the Los Angeles Theology Conference 2017

President-Elect Trump: “Nobody Knows Anything.” What Can We Learn?

Is This the “End of Protestantism?” A Review of Peter Leithart’s Latest Book on Church Unity

Maximize Your Work Time in Four Realistic Steps : Modest Thoughts From a Self-Noted Expert in Wasting Time

Neither Jew, Nor Greek, Neither Republican, Nor Democrat – Christian Unity in a Divided Age

My Farewell to Vin Scully: Five Glimpses into Vin’s Greatness

The ‘Blurred Lines’ of Plagiarism, Ownership, and Christian Practice

Domesticated Jesus and Highlighter Christianity

Why Pro-Life Issues Are Not Enough of a Reason For Christians to Support Trump

Review of The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art by Luke Timothy Johnson

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