The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful [fill in the blank]

January 14, 2012 By 8 Comments

Recently, a friend of mine–former professor in Christian higher education, currently in the witness protection program hiding from the Christian Taliban–passed on to me this article by Eric Jackson (expert in Strategic Management) and published in Forbes, “The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives.” My friend felt this article spoke to some of his experiences, and [...]

Filed Under: Christian Taliban, leadership 8 Comments

The Real Problem Evangelicals Have with Evolution (and What Needs to be Done about It)

January 10, 2012 By 46 Comments

[The following is adapted from the conclusion of The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins and is seriously modified for blog consumption.] Why are so many evangelicals on full alert over evolution? They are afraid that, if evolution is correct, their evangelical heritage is called into question. That means [...]

Filed Under: biblical authority, defending the faith, evolution, fear, science and faith, The Evolution of Adam 46 Comments

Evolution, Evangelicals, and their Bible (Or, Dealing with How God Rolls)

January 6, 2012 By 47 Comments

[The following is adapted from the conclusion of The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins and is seriously modified for blog consumption.] Why is there such tension between evangelicals and evolution? The real problem isn’t evolution. There is a deeper problem: evangelicals tend to expect from the Bible [...]

Filed Under: Adam, biblical criticism, evolution, literaliam, science and faith, The Evolution of Adam 47 Comments

Susan Wise Bauer’s review of Mark Driscoll’s view on Marriage

January 6, 2012 By 7 Comments

Susan Wise Bauer has written a review of Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship, and Life Together by Mark Driscoll and his wife Grace. This review is well worth your time, not only for SWB’s ability to get to the point about the book itself, but the problem of the “cult of the personality” that [...]

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Release Date for The Evolution of Adam

January 3, 2012 By 20 Comments

Hi folks. For those 2 or 3 dozen of you who are actually following this, I was just notified by Brazos Press that The Evolution of Adam will be sent to bloggers/reviewers January 4 or 5, and that Amazon should have it “in stock” around January 23. I received my copy last week and read [...]

Filed Under: Adam, biblical criticism, evolution, science and faith, The Evolution of Adam 20 Comments
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