If you live in Grand Rapids and don’t have tickets to Taylor Swift, consider coming out to Baker Book House tonight at 7:00, when I’ll be speaking on Christ Alone. I was fascinated by the cover story of the current Books and Culture, entitled “A Critique of All Religions: Chinese Intellectuals and the Church.” David [...]
Archive for July, 2011
the church in China
Posted in Christian Worldview, Politics on July 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
receipt
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here is another entry for Our Daily Journey. As always, I appreciate any constructive feedback that might improve it before I submit it. read > 1 Samuel 15:1-35 “Then what is all the bleating of sheep and goats and the lowing of cattle I hear?” Samuel demanded. I was walking through a museum exhibit on [...]
it’s here
Posted in Christian Worldview, Ethics, Politics, Theology on July 21, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Many of us have been saying for some time that the normalization of homosexual marriage will inevitably open the door to the state’s acceptance of polygamy. Proponents of gay marriage typically scoff and say we’re silly for making such a slippery slope argument. Well, not anymore. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, Jonathan [...]
the bottom of the slippery slope
Posted in Emergent Church, Ethics on July 18, 2011 | 14 Comments »
It probably isn’t too productive to comment on the comments of “emergent” authors, as they have taken pains to make clear that they are no longer with us. As they might say, their centered set doesn’t overlap with our bounded set (which, of course, demonstrates that they too can’t avoid having a boundary). But in case there was [...]
grand trip
Posted in miscellaneous on July 18, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I just returned from a week of rafting through the Grand Canyon with about 30 other men. I made and was inspired by some new friends, and I learned a lot about the canyon and the two main theories on how it was formed (by the Flood or by millions of years of the little Colorado flowing [...]
art that tells the story
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Chris Brewer’s Art That Tells the Story is now available. I mentioned this before, but it’s a coffee table collection of works grouped around the themes of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. It’s something that every Kuyperian should possess, and since we’re all Kuyperians now (thanks to the successful efforts of N. T. Wright and [...]
liberating lordship
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I finally saw The King’s Speech last night (and early this morning, it’s a long movie). I almost never watch movies in a theater, not because of my residual conservative upbringing, but because I can’t see paying $20 when my wife and I can watch the same movie for $1 a few months later. I do [...]
