By Geoff Holsclaw I don’t know how to do electrical work.  When I need to change a light fixture I just look at how the wires fit together on the old one and try to make the new one match.  But I do know you need to turn the electricity off when you are working on stuff. Image credit So when I needed to install a new dishwasher I went downstairs, flipped the circuit-breaker, and then disconnected the old dishwasher.  I then pulled... Read more

Reading Jonathan Edwards Nathan Finn is provost and dean of the university faculty at North Greenville University. He also serves there as professor of Christian studies and history. Nathan has teamed up Jeremy Kimble to edit A Reader’s Guide to the Major Writings of Jonathan Edwards.   https://www.amazon.com/Readers-Guide-Writings-Jonathan-Edwards/dp/143355481X David George Moore conducted the following interview.   Various videos of Dave’s can be found at www.mooreengaging.com. Moore: Books on Edwards continue to churn out at a brisk pace. Why did you think this... Read more

As we come to the completion of the Spring Term at Northern we also come to the end of the school year with meetings and events and completions and readings of DMin projects (I have fifteen, count ’em, graduates in our DMin in NT Context program graduating!), and add to that a wonderful time on Northern’s campus with Bishop Todd Hunter and the Telos Collective … lots of stimulating conversations. Thanks to JS for so many links this week. Peter... Read more

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By Mike Glenn Expectant parents decorate the nursery in shiny white furniture and soft, cuddly stuffed animals. Everything must be just so. The room has to be perfect. After all, this is where the mother will rock her beautiful newborn to sleep and daddy will sing sweet lullabies. Then, the child is born and the young parent’s illusions are shattered. The room is soon cluttered with stuffed animals, stained blankets and what the baby wore yesterday. Both mom and dad... Read more

NORTHERN SEMINARY INTRODUCES: In partnership with the Apprentice Institute DMIN IN TRANSFORMATIVE DISCIPLESHIP VISIT SEMINARY.EDU/DISCIPLESHIP TO LEARN MORE. The focus is: Christian Transformation through Narratives, Practices, and Community The goal of this program is to provide Christian leaders with a deep experience in personal discipleship while simultaneously growing in the capacity to bring transformation to others within their own ministry context. Become a member of a spiritual discipleship cohort, gathering four times over a period 18-months in retreat with the... Read more

We’ve been reading through The Lost World of the Flood by Tremper Longman III and John Walton. We now get to a couple of propositions that may take some getting used to and some careful thought. Tremper and John agree with Ken Ham (who has built The Ark Encounter) that the there a real historical event behind the flood narrative in Genesis and this event is theologically significant. But the agreement ends about there. Genesis 6-9 has roots in a... Read more

Today’s poast about the patristics is about 1 Clement 4o-45. Our series uses for its text Michael Holmes, The Apostolic Fathers. 1 Clement is from Rome and in chps 40-44 he addresses church order, a topic that makes folks today nervous. In the age of authenticity conformity, tradition, structure, etc are problematic in new ways. But, perhaps a pause with 1 Clement is in order (no pun intended). The word here is taxis, order or structured living or orderliness. He begins... Read more

The word sovereignty, a favorite of some theologians, tends to move in the direction of control, of providence, of judgment, of making the world right and it is also closely aligned with holiness. But Philip Ziegler, in Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology, aligns sovereignty with love and grace and this leads to a different framing of what providence and even judgment might mean. Ziegler opens his chapter on sovereign love examining the three offices of... Read more