Most of you know by now that the New York Legislature passed a law recently that allows abortion up until the last day of pregnancy.  Non-doctors may now abort.  When only 13% of Americans support abortion in the third trimester, New York legislators gave this bill a standing ovation that lasted for several minutes. I am grateful to be a part of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, who released this statement yesterday at the First Things website. (more…) Read more

Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School and the Institute of Anglican Studies at Beeson will host the Racial Reconciliation and the National Covenant conference at Samford, Feb. 12-13. The conference will be jointly sponsored with The Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) based in Washington D.C. This event will bring Protestants, Catholics and Jews together to answer the question, How does thinking about God change the way we think about race? Talks at the conference will address covenant and race in the Hebrew Scriptures,... Read more

Mouneer Anis is the Anglican Bishop of Egypt and the Horn of Africa.  He is also the principal leader of the Anglican Global South, which contains 80% of the world’s Anglicans.  Listen to his fascinating stories about his childhood and the growth of the church in Egypt. Read more

Universalism, the view that all will be saved, is increasingly popular in the Church and academy. A blockbuster book has recently appeared that challenges universalism.   Dr Michael McClymond, historical theologian at St Louis University, penned this massive tome that, according to one observer, will be the go-to book on Christian eschatology for the next fifty years. Join me on the Via Media podcast as I interview Dr McClymond. Read more

Some of you remember our conference at Beeson with that title in September. Here is a 4-minute highlights video. David Virtue has presented another version of this, and has all the words typed out.   Read more

Once upon a time I was a supersessionist. Actually, I held to this way of thinking about Jewish Israel for much of my self-consciously theological life. What do I mean by this?  Let me explain the faith of a supersessionist. (more…) Read more

What can Anglicans and Baptists learn from one another?  I asked this of Timothy George, who is perhaps the most respected Baptist theologian in the world. Dr George is the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School.  After thirty years of leadership, he is stepping down this coming spring.  You will be blessed to hear him talk about Anglicanism from his perspective as a Baptist historical theologian with keen ecumenical interests. Listen here: #ViaMediaPodcast Read more

Pittsburgh Christian Studies (PGH CS) seeks an early- to mid-career academic theologian with entrepreneurial energy to serve as its full-time Associate Director (AD) in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. The AD will foster intellectual community among undergraduate students, work with affiliated faculty to develop curricular and extra-curricular opportunities, and raise financial support for the program’s sustained growth. In unique circumstances, this position could be shared by qualified partners. As the only current full-time staff person, the AD will supervise day-to-day... Read more

Friends: Tune in to the latest edition of Mars Hill Audio, where host Ken Myers and I discuss the new edition of a great work by E.L. Mascall.  Mascall was an Anglican theologian in England mid-20th century.  I consider him to be the best Anglican theologian of the century. If you are not a subscriber to Mars Hill Audio, you need to be.  Myers is a former NPR producer for Morning Edition who is both Renaissance man and orthodox Christian.  Each month... Read more

Many years ago I happened upon a notebook that Jonathan Edwards (170-3-58) had kept throughout his life.  He titled the notebook “Images of Divine Things.”  In this notebook, now about eighty-five pages in print, Edwards jotted notes on the resemblances to the triune God and his ways that he saw in the world around him.   By “world” I mean not only nature but also what we call human relations.  I was immediately enthralled.  (more…) Read more