The Importance of Being More Than Earnest

Doctrine. Theology. For many evangelicals these words are as pleasant as the phrase, “impacted tooth!” That theology is irrelevant to Christian life has essentially become a received dogma. Nevertheless, as much as indifference about Christian truth reigns among evangelicals, to the same . . . Continue reading →

Fisher’s Catechism On Distinction Between The Special And General Kingdoms

James Fisher published a widely-read (and oft-reprinted) Exposition of the Shorter Catechism (1753). Ebenezer Erskine and others of the “Marrow Men”—that is, those who were the gospel-men in eighteenth-century Scotland (as opposed to the moralists of the time)—were also associated with it. . . . Continue reading →

Review: Still Protesting: Why the Reformation Still Matters By D. G. Hart

In 2008, Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom published Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism.1 The book was measured in its answer, but in an interview at the time of publication, Noll said, yes, the Reformation is over. . . . Continue reading →

What Is Love?

The book begins with one question:  “What is love?”  Our culture has its answers, but what does the Bible say?  Borg then proceeds to answer many other questions we might ask.  These include:  does God love everyone?  What about the love we . . . Continue reading →

The Cradle Of Christian Truth: The Apostles’ Creed (Part 2)—I Believe

As we start this series, the whole first line, “I believe in God the Father Almighty,” is too much to tackle in one go. As a way of introduction to the whole idea of studying the Creed, then, this article focuses on . . . Continue reading →

The Church Of The Nones

Twenty minutes outside downtown Atlanta, Vinings Lake sits along a humming thoroughfare connecting Veterans Memorial Highway to the affluent suburbs north of the city. With its white steeple and brick exterior, it could easily be mistaken for another Southern Baptist church adorning . . . Continue reading →

The Order Of Love (Ordo Amoris): Proximity, Not Ethnicity (Part 1)

The Christian Nationalists have discovered a new toy: Augustine’s language about the “order of love” or the “order of charity” (ordo amoris), and some of them are putting it to the service of racism and kinism.1 This calls for some explanation and . . . Continue reading →