...dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness
Evangelicalism’s “Only Child” Syndrome and more thoughts on the George Carlin post. Intro music by Rhodes. You all need to buy “The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church” and more Reformation theology gifts from New Reformation Press.
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I have a new post at Jesus Shaped Spirituality called “Jesus Says Cross the Line.” I have all the stuff with me for a podcast, but it’s hard to do podcast production when you are on the road. I’m sorry to not get something out this week, and I’ll do my best, but this is [...]
It’s Thursday of “Baseball Week,” and I’m in a library getting some of my Cornerstone talks polished off before heading for central Ohio to meet my daughter and son-in-law. Sabbatical is certainly rushing by. Yesterday’s day game gave me a really nice case of sunburned knees. Knees. It’s so much like my life to get [...]
Here’s the current post at my new blog, and an example of what you will be reading there in the future. Several days ago, I posted an invitation to discuss Jesus and Gas Prices on this blog. It’s a topic that, to a large extent, will reveal how much we really can engage our imagination [...]
One of the most popular methods used in Christian preaching and teaching today is taking a topic or text and presenting it as a list of principles. I would like to briefly examine some of the “good†and “not so good†aspects of the practice of turning texts or topics into principles as the primary [...]
The latest post at Jesus Shaped Spirituality is a basic discussion of how the New Testament speaks of the church. Remember that most of my writing- aside from podcasts, book reviews and a few odds and ends- will be moving to Jesus Shaped Spirituality. The current address is www.jesusshaped.wordpress.com, but JesusShaped.com will be available soon. [...]
Podcast 43 Thoughts and reflections from the Ravi Zacharias Summer Institute in Wheaton, Illinois. The podcast web site is Coffee Cup Apologetics.
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I’m on the campus of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois at the Ravi Zacharias Summer Institute. Outstanding conference. I am especially enjoying the teaching of Dr. Chris Mitchell doing an overview of the entire Bible. Our sessions have all been in the massive Billy Graham Center. Part of this building is a Graham Museum, which [...]
Since new SBC President “Dr.” Johnny Hunt is having a bit of an academic credentials crisis, I thought it would be a good time for me to say I understand the feeling that drives us to do things like order a Ph.d from the back of a comic book. So here’s an essay where I [...]
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Thank You George Carlin
Done. Thanks. Wikipedia has a very complete Carlin entry. Comedians and those who knew the man discuss Carlin’s life and contribution. When I heard that George Carlin had died, one of the first thoughts I had was how he had, in his own way, lived a life devoted to the “word,” i.e. the comedic word, [...]