Notes Toward a Theology of Pets and the Atonement (Spoof)
Last week, Pope Francis made headlines by announcing in his weekly address that we will be able to see our pets in... Read More
On Fools and Folly
In the latest issue of the Michigan Daily, the campus newspaper of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Claire Bryan runs... Read More
Keeping Thanksgiving Well
When one thinks of the primary sins in our world today, we tend to think big, pointing to sins like murder, abuse,... Read More
A Promise of Land & Seed AND/OR Inheritance & People?
Students sometimes ask me the difference between the hermeneutics employed by Covenant, New Covenant, Progressive Dispensational, and Traditional Dispensational theologian/exegetes. Perhaps the easiest... Read More
How Then Shall We Vote?
With the election hard upon us, it is a good time to be reminded that nothing we do can rightly be divorced... Read More
What Mean Those Distant Drums?
Last year we were jolted when the Supreme Court struck down one of the central pillars of the “Defense of Marriage Act,”... Read More
Jesus and the Promise of the NT Canon
Among the many promises of John 14–17 are several that anticipate heightened activity by the Holy Spirit in the apostolic era. These... Read More
Revisiting Common Grace
It’s mid-September here in Michigan. The much-anticipated, season-changing cold front has gone through, the mornings have become crisp and clear, and the... Read More
On Being a "Biblicist": Why You Can’t Choose "None of the Above" on the Calvinism/Arminianism Question
For my whole life I’ve been broadly a part of an ecclesiastical culture/movement that has been disinclined to commit either to Calvinism... Read More
On Preaching Predictive Prophecy
While visiting a church a few weeks back I heard something I’ve not heard in many years: a sermon on predictive prophecy.... Read More