From Ivy-League to Furniture Maker Imagine an Ivy-league graduate with well-educated parents.  Dad is a lawyer, Mom a historian.  Instead of going some traditional route our newly minted college graduate is smitten with making things, especially furniture.  Eventually his love for making things translates into starting a school where others can explore the glories of making beautiful things with their own hands. Well, Peter Korn is that man.  Now in his mid-sixties he ventured out on a most unlikely path,... Read more

The question: What are the central characteristics of a genuine conversation in your opinion? [Repost] I want to draw your attention to a massive and brilliant study, but for most of us far too specialized to be a book to “blog” our way through. The book is Benedetta Craveri’s The Age of Conversation. Her book is a detailed analysis of 17th Century salons, directed mostly by women, designed not for professors and specialists but for a nobility that wanted to form... Read more

Here are the Top Ten Posts of the 2015 at Jesus Creed 1. Did Jesus Talk about Homosexuality? 2. A New Exodus out of the American Church, by Jeff Cook 3. The Same God, Volf Speaks 4. Deconstructing the Bully God, a look at NT Wright 5. John Piper and Women Preachers 6. Yes, Mark Woods in the UK Understands the USA’s Marriage Problem . 7. A Few Thoughts for My Friends in The Gospel Coalition, by David Moore. 8.... Read more

It has been a Star Wars season for many. Although I haven’t seen the new movie (or, indeed, any other than the original three – which were fantastic) many friends and family members contributed to the first weekend success of the film. Several have seen it more than once. Anyway, a recent twitter storm and response connected with the film caught my eye (thank you Facebook!…?). Apparently some were critical of the stars of the original movies and the way... Read more

Swati Sharma: A priest glided up and down church aisles, singing songs during a Christmas Eve Mass in the Philippines. Days later, he was reprimanded for his actions. Why? Because he was on a hoverboard. Roman Catholic Church officials in the Philippines called his actions “wrong,”stating that the Mass “demands utmost respect and reverence” and isn’t a “personal celebration … to get the attention of the people.” Rev. Albert San Jose’s hoverboard incident was captured on video and has gone viral since. Read more

The Calvinism and Pantheism Connection: Upending the Good Wesley Walker is a seminarian at the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University and active member in the Anglican Church in North America. “To say that God’s goodness may be different in kind from man’s goodness, what is it but saying, with a slight change of phraseology, that God may possibly not be good?” asked philosopher John Stuart Mill. Unfortunately, this redefinition of God’s nature occurs as the logical consequence of... Read more

This post is by Stan Gundry of Zondervan. This post was originally published on the Bible Gateway Blog. (link to https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2015/12/remembering-ed-dobson-a-guest-post-by-stan-gundry/). Edward G. Dobson, known as Dr. Dobson to some, as Pastor Dobson to others, as author to still others, and as Eddie to many close friends, died on December 26, 2015. I was his publisher, he was my pastor, but to me he was “Ed.” I have prayed for him many times since he was diagnosed with ALS in the... Read more

Kimberly Kindy, Marc Fisher: In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings. Meanwhile, The Post found that the great majority of people who died at the hands of the police fit at least one of three categories: they were wielding weapons, they were suicidal or mentally troubled,... Read more

Although there are variations across the range of Christianity, it is not uncommon for Christians, especially evangelical Christians, to view our eternal destiny as a heaven of eternal worship. This is often caricatured as angels floating on clouds and playing harps for eternity. (Not exactly a view derived from Scripture.)   The core argument of J. Richard Middleton’s book  A New heaven and a New Earth is that the redemption and restoration described in Scripture is a holistic redemption of all... Read more