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This piece from two summers ago- A God Shaped Void? Maybe Not- explores some important questions about evangelism, our assumptions about those we are evangelizing, and especially our dialogue with atheists and young people.
It’s the kind of rethinking of evangelicalism I like to do, and it will challenge you, especially if you were raised […]

Last night, the Spencer family ate Mexican in celebration of my daughter’s graduation from Ohio State University. It was a happy occasion in life’s journey. Long-time readers of this site may remember some of the key moments in this journey and the parallel journey of our son, who is still in school.
Perhaps one of the […]

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 share […]

I’ve always liked this essay, and I don’t want to lose track of it.

The Humility Zone is rarer and rarer among Christians these days. Defending the authority of scripture has come to mean asserting the impossibility of our own fallibility. Scripture is true, has authority and, of course, my interpretation of scripture just happens to […]

I’d forgotten about this one. Really, this is so very much what I have to say to anyone about the whole business of being a Christian. I couldn’t write anything today more on target with my journey to a Jesus-Shaped spirituality.
Read: Reduced to Jesus

At the Asbury Bloggers Society meeting last night, we had a wide ranging discussion on various aspects of blogging and ministerial formation at the seminary level. One of my suggestions was that a blogger develop a list of “teaching” blogs that exhibit and demonstrate excellence. Use these blogs to ask yourself questions about your own […]

Here’s one of my favorite major essays on Biblical interpretation. Lots of important ideas here that I’ve put together in my own approach to scripture. Yes, it’s a long one, but I think it will be worth the time for those interested in the subject.
Learning to read the Bible in a way that puts the […]

I will be suing Jared Wilson. Get lawyered up.
All resemblance to any actual, existing blogs is purely coincidental. I couldn’t possibly be referring to you.
Seriously though, I do want to be helpful. I can work on many of these things myself, otherwise they wouldn’t be in my head to tell you.
1. It’s too personal. Personal […]

Here’s a good piece (I think) from the Spring of last year: Grace is as Dangerous as Ever. You can’t talk about grace too much around the blogosphere as far as I am concerned. When grace is understood, you either get in the flow or you resist the Spirit. One is scary and the other […]

UPDATE: Joel has made an extensive explanation and defense of his “Story or proposition?” argument from this post over at the Boar’s Head. Be sure and check it out if you’ve read this.

I’ll be back to blogging in a day or so, but until then I want to re-run this fantastic IM essay by Joel […]

I haven’t talked about Robert Capon in a while, so here’s a visit to one of my favorite past IM posts: “Jesus = Salvation.” I say this all the time in teaching and preaching. It’s been very helpful to me and hopefully to others. Capon got me there. I love you, Fr. Robert.
If you aren’t […]

There are several posts here at Internet Monk that relate to the post and discussion of inerrancy and escalating theological rhetoric.
C.S. Lewis and Inerrancy.
Five Reasons I Don’t Use the Term Inerrancy.
Ten Questions On the Bible.
Answers Not In Genesis.
A Conversation in God’s Kitchen. (My major essay on the Bible.)
Conrad Hyers: The Man Who Ruined Me on […]

iMonk 101 features essays from the IM archives.
Well, I’ve been trying to post for over an hour. Wrote and dumped a new piece twice. Then this one went nuts. I think I’ll go to bed.
I’m Not A Conservative Christian
A good post for this political season, exploring the relationship between our political conservatism and our evangelical […]

This essay would be appreciated most by those who read my essay recounting my history of appreciating Roman Catholicism. Sadly, I could not write that essay today.
I took an hour out of my time this afternoon and reread a large section of Thomas Merton’s outstanding spiritual biography, The Seven Storey Mountain. I was looking for […]

Sometimes I don’t need to hear about success. I need to hear about why I matter. I need an antidote to discouragement that reminds me its OK to just be me. A classic IM piece that is meant to lift up the downcast with some seldom heard interpretations of well known passages.

READ: “The Sanity Verses.”