First Base: This is my kids’ AWESOME school. Second Base: Yes, I am afraid of heights. Third Base: Miroslav Volf starts preaching in the middle of a lecture! Home Plate: The atonement. Is it “divine child abuse” or “no substitute for the substitution”? As usual, all false antitheses be damned to hell! Moltmann steers the middle ground. Read more
That, during the general election, he will say, “If you are voting for me because you don’t want to vote for a person of color, or because you think that Barack Obama is a Muslim, then I don’t want your vote. If that is the case, don’t vote for me.” Read more
Last week, I taught a week-long intensive course at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York, and I had a wonderful time. At one point, I reflected on the changes that I see coming in theological (and other forms of) education. One student typed as I spoke, and he sent me this direct quote, “I don’t believe in the trickle down theory of knowledge anymore. That is bankrupt. That is not the way the world changes anymore. That is because... Read more
“Under modern conditions, where almost everyone lives in communities in which diversity has taken the place of consensus, certainty is much more difficult to come by. Relativism can be described as a world view that not only acknowledges but celebrates the absence of consensus. So-called post-modernist theorists like to speak of narratives and, in principle, every narrative is as valued as any other. The moral end result of this world view can be captured by imagining a television interview with... Read more
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Because I’m going back in time and becoming a 1908 revivalist in a month, I’ve been growing out my beard. Facial hair was all the rage in 1908. Now the question is, which style to choose? Personally, I’m leaning toward the Franz Joseph. Read more
…on the Personality Map? Read more
First Base: Norm continues his interaction with Pete Rollins’s new book at Christians in Context. Pete’s also commenting in response. Second Base: Darren King interviewed me for Precipice Magazine. Third Base: David Fitch takes on Mark Driscoll. Home Plate: Steve Knight has a Mega-Post on Evangelicalism at EV. Read more
Here’s another portion of my book that didn’t make it into the final version. Remember, it’s rough and unedited, but it is a story that’s dear to my heart. I’m a volunteer police chaplain, and when my pager starts buzzing, most likely, I’ll be gone for the next several hours. Last December, the tell-tale vibration happened at about 9:30 p.m., just two days before Christmas. I called into the police dispatcher, and she told me, “We’ve got a DOA.” “What... Read more
At least Drew Marshall does. I was on his radio show last week. Listen HERE. Read more
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