Just read an interesting story on the legacy of Jan Huss, the great proto-Reformer of the present-day Czech Republic. If you’ve never heard of Huss or haven’t thought much about him, this Baptist Press piece is well worth your time. Here’s a bit: He became a priest not for noble or spiritual reasons but simply [...]
Carl Trueman Lecturing on Luther at SBTS
September 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
Excellent news from SBTS: Carl Trueman of Westminster Theological Seminary will deliver the prestigious Gheens Lectures at Southern Seminary next week. To say I am excited to hear Trueman speak on Luther would be an exercise in understatement. It gets better, though–Trueman is speaking on Luther as “theological pastor.” Sounds like some pastor-theologian material to [...]
Are Leaves & Twigs Heating Your Inner Spiritual Life?
August 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
I recently had the opportunity to publish a short piece on Jonathan Edwards and his seminal Religious Affections in Ligonier Ministry’s excellent Tabletalk devotionalmagazine. Any magazine, by the way, that is named after something Martin Luther-related is a-okay by me. My piece focused on how theology is intricately connected to our religious “affections,” the emotions [...]
Kevin DeYoung Speaks Wisely About Celebrity Pastors
June 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
Kevin DeYoung has just posted a manifestly helpful piece on the hot-potato topic of “celebrity pastors.” I commend it to you; it’s full of wisdom and good theological thinking. Here’s a snatch: Give glory to God for his gifts wherever you find them.This entails three things: 1) We must always remember—and not just give lip [...]
John Piper, Don Carson, and Transformed Pastors and Scholars
May 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There’s a great deal of interest right now in what some have called the pastor-theologian and theologian-pastor movement. John Piper and D. A. Carson are two of the more prominent faces of each of these enhanced ministerial vocations. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dustin Neeley of Church Planting for the Rest [...]
Making Men Moral: Greg Thornbury on the Enlightenment, Natural Law, and Christian Witness
February 27, 2009 By 1 Comment
The biography of the conference’s last session speaker, Greg Thornbury: “Gregory Alan Thornbury, PhD is the founding Dean of the School of Christian Studies at Union University, where he teaches philosophy and theology. Since 2002, He has served as Senior Fellow for The Kairos Journal (New York), an online research tool designed to help pastors [...]
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