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Monthly Archives: January 2009
my unanswered question
Yesterday I had the privilege of being a respondent on the “Exploring the Emerging Church” panel at Calvin’s Symposium on Worship. The presenters were three emergent leaders: Jason Clark, a Vineyard pastor in England; Peter Rollins, the leader of an … Continue reading
Posted in Emergent Church
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what’s wrong with this picture?
My five year old daughter loves taking pictures, so this Christmas we bought her a Playskool child’s camera so she could take as many pictures as she wants. When we downloaded her pictures on to my computer, I noticed that … Continue reading
Posted in miscellaneous
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now it’s official: everyone is on youtube
Andy Rogers from Zondervan just emailed me this link of his interview with me about contemporary theology. It’s posted today on Zondervan’s koinonia website, but what caught me eye is that it’s also on youtube. I know this isn’t a … Continue reading
work of art
This is another RBC devotional I wrote for this month (next month Our Daily Journey goes live). I may have tried to fit too much theology into it. Let me know if you think it is too dense. read … Continue reading
the best book on forgiveness
I want to let you know about Unpacking Forgiveness (Crossway), a new book that I like so much I am using it in my soteriology class. The author, Chris Brauns, was two years ahead of me when we were students … Continue reading
the vital spot
A self-described emergent Christian wrote a guest editorial in today’s Grand Rapids Press about me and a certain retired pastor. I won’t respond to it because a) I said I wouldn’t; b) there is nothing to comment on, as there … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Worldview, Emergent Church, Theology
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what’s so great about being a pastor?
Today is my 42nd birthday, which means I am two years past the date when I said I would re-evaluate whether to remain a professor or look to shepherd a church. I always planned on being a pastor, ever since … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, miscellaneous
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questions about the new perspective
Trevin Wax posted his recent interview with N.T. Wright on the topic of Wright’s much anticipated response to John Piper which will be published next month in the U.K. and this summer by IVP in the states. While I enjoy Wright’s … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
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how once upon a time America decreased its abortion rate
Marvin Olasky shares some key findings from his book, Abortion Rites: A Social History of Abortion in America (Crossway) in the current issue of World magazine. You may read his provocative article here: http://www.worldmag.com/printer.cfm?id=14857. Olasky’s surprising discovery is that the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Politics
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Calvin’s other names
In honor of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth, I will periodically test your knowledge of the great, and mostly accurate, Reformer. Today’s question: like many other Reformers, Calvin sometimes used an alias to avoid detection. Which two did … Continue reading
Posted in John Calvin
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