Found this in a poignant Christianity Today tribute to Henry written by his old friend Kenneth Kantzer. Henry’s “greatest failure” according to Kantzer, former dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, involved a failed plan for a “great Christian university”: “From his student days, Carl dreamed of a great Christian university modeled after sixteenth-century Wittenberg or [...]
Making Men Moral: Seen and Heard Around the Conference
February 26, 2009 By 2 Comments
I want to give you a quick snapshot of the goings-on of this conference, held at Union University in Jackson, TN from February 25-27, 2009. I don’t merely want to report what’s been said, but to give you a bit of a feel for this event. That, it seems to me, is a huge part [...]
“The City” and the 9Marks Journal Are Must-Reads
February 2, 2009 By 3 Comments
If you have not heard of Houston Baptist University’s new journal called The City, you should have. I have read a few issues now and find it uncommonly interesting, broad, and, well, fun. Seriously. I’m in a PhD program, surrounded by all kinds of journals and books and very sober publications, and it’s not often [...]
The Gospel for the City: Tim Keller’s “Dwell” Remarks in The City
September 3, 2008 By 3 Comments
The first print edition of The City, a journal from Houston Baptist University, is out. Robert Sloan, the former president of Baylor University and a courageous and visionary Christian leader, heads up HBU and shares a few words about the journal. The first issue is quite promising and will be of interest to pastors, laypeople, [...]
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