Evangelical Social Engagement: A Reprise
Last week in this blog post, I suggested that if the current surge of evangelical social attentiveness shares identity with surges that preceded... Read More
Chapter Note: Joel Carpenter, “What’s New About the New Evangelical Social Engagement?”
I just finished browsing through an engaging new title, The New Evangelical Social Engagement. No, it’s not an obscure book by a... Read More
Slouching Towards Salem
The worldwide web is a staging area for mobs. It offers us sound definitions of and warnings about mobs (Wikipedia calls them... Read More
Zero-Sum Economics and Church Planting
I’ve visited sub-Saharan Africa a few times and have started to get a handle on the grassroots economic theory that dominates the... Read More
Now That the Smoke Has Cleared: A Summary of Christian Responses to the Nye/Ham Debate
It’s now been two weeks since the big debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye. Everyone who watched has an opinion about... Read More
The "Value" of Degrees in Theology and Religious Vocation
This morning I scanned through an interesting book put out by Georgetown University that analyzes the value of 171 common college majors... Read More
Presuppositional Apologetics and Sound Parenting?
One of the more surprising sources of parental advice that I have received came to me a few years ago in the... Read More
Review Link for New Book on Apologetics
I just finished Scott Oliphint’s generally excellent book on apologetics, Covenantal Apologetics (P&R, 2013) and was fixing to write a review when I... Read More
To Duck or Not to Duck
The Duck Dynasty controversy has finally slipped into the periphery, and most are glad to leave it that way. Franklin Graham, however,... Read More
"Peace, Peace" When There Is No Peace
One of the more troubling mis-translations in the history of English Bible translation (at least in terms of its popular acceptance and... Read More