Audio and video has been posted from the Mohler-Wallis debate hosted by the Henry Center of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (HT: @carlhenrycenter). I just checked the video and it looks great. A basic question at the heart of the debate is this: Is social justice an essential part of the mission of the church? The Henry Center for Theological Understanding, in its Trinity Debates forum, is pleased to provide a public venue for addressing this question by hosting two prominent... Read more
Ben Domenech’s Transom email is chock-full of good links and thoughts. Recently, it included the material listed below from the Margaret Sanger corpus. Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, came up recently when Herman Cain, embattled Republican candidate for the presidential nomination, suggested on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that she wanted “to kill black babies.” Here’s the transcript. This remark touched off a heated debate. Here’s one response, for example, that decries Cain’s remark, arguing that he “offered an alternate... Read more
I recently heard from Moody Publishers that the Essential Edwards Collection is being sold on Kindle right now for $17–or $16.48, to be exact. If you’ve sat on the fence since 2010–a long time to sit on the fence–now may be the time to pick this series up. The hour is upon you. Edwards expert Douglas Sweeney and I wrote these books to introduce a wide range of readers to Edwards. His robust theological and exegetical writing can be complex... Read more
The cultural decline of men continues apace. Tide detergent, of all cultural voices, is leading the charge today. Watch “Dad Mom” here (I can’t tell if Tide changed the title due to backlash–it used to be “Dad Mom”). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1qW7Po-1KI These are actual quotations from this chirpy, tongue-in-cheek video: “Hi. I’m a Dad Mom. While my wife works, I’m at home being awesome.” “I can take even the frilliest girl dress and fold it with complete accuracy.” I will not respond... Read more
According to the Henry Center, media from last night’s Mohler-Wallis debate on social justice will be up in 10-14 days. Here’s what the Center just published about the debate from Thursday night: The ATO chapel of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School was filled to capacity as over 600 people attended the stimulating debate between Jim Wallis and Al Mohler on the question: Is Social Justice an Essential Part of the Mission of the Church? An even larger audience was able to... Read more
New York magazine has just published a lengthy piece by Noreen Malone entitled “The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright” that merits consideration. I’m not linking to it because the NYM website is full of scandalous material. I will quote extensively from it in engaging some of its ideas. Malone is a Georgetown University graduate who formerly wrote for Slate. She is a gifted and entertaining writer who nicely mixes anecdote with statistical information. Her essay is essentially an apology... Read more
(Update: Post corrected thanks to Tyler Wittman) Thursday night at 7pm CST (8pm EST), the much-anticipated (and widely-covered) debate between Al Mohler and Jim Wallis takes place. The Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School is staging the event. Anyone and everyone can watch the live-stream here starting at 7pm on Thursday, October 27, 2011. I would encourage readers to pray that this event will lead to gospel clarity on a confusing issue. Here... Read more
A little while back I mentioned Kenneth Kantzer, founding dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. In the course of my research on Kantzer and his fellow neo-evangelicals, I came across this documentary fragment that will be of interest to many who are following current evangelical battles over inerrancy, theistic evolution, and the historicity of persons and events in the book of Genesis. In a talk Kantzer gave on October 4, 1987 to the TEDS advisory committee, he included a section... Read more
This from Credo magazine: We are pleased to release an interview with Owen Strachan, co-author of The Essential Edwards Collection: Set of 5 Books, on the monumental figure, Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the greatest theologian-philosopher in American history. In Part 1 of this interview Owen introduces us to the life and thought of Edwards, his Puritan heritage, as well as the theological issues and debates of his day. In Part 2 Owen explores the pastoral heart of Edwards, how Edwards was... Read more
Recently, I had the opportunity to write a blog for the Criswell College blog entitled For Christ and Culture. I wrote on evangelist Billy Sunday and said this: Billy Sunday is a heroic figure in evangelical history. By the end of his life, it was widely believed that no one had preached the gospel to more people than the one-time Chicago White Stocking centerfielder, once the fastest man in baseball. More than almost any other figure of his generation, Sunday... Read more
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