If you haven’t seen them yet, here are two free excerpts from my just-released volume What Christians Ought To Believe. Who Needs a Creed When I Have a Bible. Living the Story of the Cross. Read more

Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016. Available at Amazon.com There are a lot of dark stories being told in popular culture right now. Where we used to tell tales where everyone ‘lived happily ever after’, in more recent days novels, movies, and TV shows have taken a decidedly apocalyptic and dystopian turn. Think of the contrast between Leave it to... Read more

I was thrilled to be interviewed by Trevin Wax and Brandon Smith on the Word Matters podcast about Romans 7:7-25. You can listen to it here. It is a doozy of text and we had lots of fun discussing it, though I don’t know if I succeeded in bringing Trevin around to my point of view. Read more

Nicholas Wolterstorff  Justice in Love Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2015. Available on Amazon.com Reviewed by Felicity Clift   Justice in Love by Nicholas Wolterstorff (Eerdmans, 2015) is no light read, yet it is a valuable one. Nicholas Woltertorff’s primary aim in Justice in Love is to address the tension between agape love and justice. The concepts of love and justice are highly regarded in our culture, yet rather than attraction based or romantic, Wolterstorff’s book re-presents love as something that... Read more

Over at Secundum Scripturas, Bruce Ware has a post on Knowing the Self-Revealed God Who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I think this is a good and helpful post, it might assuage some objections, and it shows that Ware is definitely attempting to demonstrate the parity of EFS/ERAS with Nicene Trinitarianism. I’m glad this was posted, I think it moves the conversation forward in a helpful way. As I read over it, my questions are: 1. Does Ware’s affirmation of eternal... Read more

Michael Todd Wilson Unburdened: The Christian leader’s path to sexual integrity Wheaton, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Available in Amazon.com Reviewed by Felicity Clift As a woman writing, it is unsurprising perhaps that this book gets a mixed review from me. Its cover claims it is for ‘Christian leaders’ yet the blurb and its contents make it plain that Michael Todd Wilson believes this role belongs to men. Believe me, I am aware there is debate around women in Christian leadership,... Read more

John G. Flett Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective Missiological Engagements Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2016. Available at Amazon.com This is an interesting book on a juicy topic of apostolicity. It touches on the Catholic/Protestant divide, world Christianity, and what is continuous and contingent in the Christian message. According to Flett, a PCUSA minister living in Australia, “My central presumption is that world Christianity exists, that it finds expression in the local appropriation of the gospel and thus... Read more

Here is a guest post from Prof. Lewis Ayres, Durham University, on meaning of Nicene Orthodoxy in light of evangelical debates about eternal functional subordination. ___ After conversations on facebook and email about the on-going controversy over “eternal subordination” among evangelicals I said to Michael Bird that I had two more things to say (in addition to the facebook posts that Michel and I wrote a week or two ago). These two things relate to wider and foundational issues at stake in... Read more

I’m currently reading Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015) and it’s a fine read written by a pastor/scholar known for her preaching. I particularly liked her summary of the significance of apocalyptic theology for Christian hope: The apocalyptic emphasis on the triumph of God celebrates not only God’s initiative in Christ but also God’s coming victory n Christ. This is the already/not-yet of hte New Testament that must always be held in balance. In the stories... Read more

It is good to see more women getting into the Complementarian-Trinity “civil war,” well no actually, its not good, all civil war is bad, disunity is harmful, but you know what I mean. Over at Practical Theology for Women, Wendy Alsup gives her view on eternal subordination and makes a forthright statement which should be noted: When these leaders emphasize female submission instead of wifely submission, they are speaking of submission as if it were an ontological characteristic. Consider how... Read more