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 emergent gathering (Ikon) in Ireland; and Kevin Corcoran, a philosophy professor at Calvin College. These [...]
Archive for January, 2009
my unanswered question
Posted in Emergent Church on January 30, 2009 | 25 Comments »
what’s wrong with this picture?
Posted in miscellaneous on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 many of them were shots of noses, chins, and sides of faces.
I was about to [...]
now it’s official: everyone is on youtube
Posted in Theology, tagged Christian Worldview, contemporary theology on January 28, 2009 | 11 Comments »
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 big deal, considering what is already on this site, but it’s a first for me.
Anyway, [...]
work of art
Posted in Christian Worldview, Theology, tagged cultural mandate, work on January 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
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 > Colossians 3:23
Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the [...]
the best book on forgiveness
Posted in Theology, book review, tagged Chris Brauns, unpacking forgiveness on January 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
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 at GRTS, and so I’ve always looked up to him as sort of an older [...]
the vital spot
Posted in Christian Worldview, Emergent Church, Theology on January 24, 2009 | 24 Comments »
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 is no issue or controversy between us; and c) I don’t trust people not to [...]
what’s so great about being a pastor?
Posted in Ethics, miscellaneous on January 23, 2009 | 30 Comments »
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 I was a junior in high school. So I earned a pre-seminary degree in college, taught [...]
questions about the new perspective
Posted in Theology on January 20, 2009 | 27 Comments »
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 stuff and have learned from interacting with the new perspective on Paul, a paragraph from the [...]
how once upon a time America decreased its abortion rate
Posted in Ethics, Politics on January 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
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 rate of abortion relative to the population was higher in America on the eve of the [...]
Calvin’s other names
Posted in John Calvin on January 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 he use? I will give the answer in the first comment.
a. Just some guy
b. Charles d’Espeville
c. [...]
