I recentlychanged jobs. I left the job that I had had since college and set out to do something else in the same field. The change was something I had been contemplating for a number of months before I finally actively pursued it. This decision was precipitated by several factors: a desire to try something different, the hope of diversifying my resume by gaining new experience, and a growing dissatisfaction with the job I currently […]
Blogs exist not merely to proclaim truth (for that we have the pulpit), nor do they exist strictly for academic discovery (as in journals and monographs). The Blogosphere is a happy dimension where ideas can be tested or even just simply suggested. It is the tentative nature of Blogs that allow me the opportunity to be a bit more risky and provocative than I would normally prefer. Naturally, this post will see opposition, but consider […]
“I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (John the Baptist, Mark 1:8) Although many of us are unable to follow, we really ought to commend the Pentecostals for doing something with the notion of Holy Spirit baptism. For the rest of us, it is subsumed under the notion of the Spirit as gift, with reception becoming the controlling motif. Baptism in the Spirit becomes a metaphor for […]
Kyle Strobel uses the eroticism of the Puritans to critique Mark Driscoll’s ongoing narrative about effeminate worship leaders. Elizabeth Antus analyzes compulsive eating from a Christian theological perspective. Matt Jenson discusses Anselm on the fitting nature of divine justice. According to Virginia Postrel, Harvard’s new “Kindness Pledge” is deleterious to serious learning. As a purely historical point, Denny Burk says that the Apostle Paul was a widower. Carl Trueman says that Al Mohler’s argument for a […]
By Andrew Linderer The issue of men and women in the church seems to be a ticking time bomb in the modern American church. It has enormous potential to split churches, break up families, and leave people broken and confused. It’s a heated debate and often one that brings about a certain degree of petty name calling and childish behavior among educated Christian scholars and layman alike. (Hopefully we can avoid such childishness in the […]
“They sing” wrote Pliny the Younger. When describing the life and the rituals of this most bizarre new “religion” that was springing up throughout the 1st Century Roman world, depicting the phenomenon and germination of a new people called “Christians.” This profound quote was brought to my attention by Cherith Fee Nordling, in her penetrating article on the impact of Psalms, Hymns ,and Songs of the Spirit on Christian transformation. She notes that in his […]
As orthodox Christians we all readily affirm the Chalcedonian Definition of Christology. Jesus the Messiah has two natures; being both completely human and completely divine. These two natures are distinct from each other, yet are united in the single person of Christ. All Christological heresies abandon at least one of these central tenets. We know what we ought to affirm regarding the Word of God made flesh (Jn 1.1, 14), yet when it comes to […]
Over the past few weeks, I have been critiquing the biblical manhood movement on a number of levels. While those first four posts were crucial in the series I am writing, I want to strike out on a bit of a different tact in these final two posts. In this post in particular, I have no one to critique. But rather, I have some thoughts to suggest when it comes to helping men be more […]
Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, posted an article last week on his website entitled, “What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? A New Book Joins the Argument.” The article was adapted from an essay he wrote for a new collaborative book on the spectrum of evangelicalism. The article gives a brief history of evangelicalism as a movement, helping us to understand what the term means and how it’s been used throughout history. As […]
When it comes to super-heroes I am a Batman guy all the way. It certainly doesn’t hurt that the Oscar-worthy Christopher Nolan is the mastermind behind the resurgence of Batman’s popularity and Joel Schumacher’s grubby paws are nowhere near the franchise (although he did apologize). Yet, even before Nolan I preferred Batman to others, especially Superman (It also goes without saying that I prefer DC to Marvel). The perennial question, ‘Who would win in a […]
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