James K. A. Smith has an interesting post at CT: Teaching a Calvinist to Dance. In this post he says he longs for a “a kind of ‘Pentecostalized’ Reformed spirituality.”
Is Willow Creek Really Changing?
Matt Branagh at CT quotes some folks who say WC is making a fundamental shift, but the evidence from the “Reveal” study isn’t so clear cut.
WSC Grad Nollie Malabuyo Ordained to Ministry
It’s a beautiful thing:
New in Print
Examining the Nine Points: Point One, Outlook 58.5 (May 2008): 22-26. The article is not online. This is a link to an overview of the latest issue. Review of Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology by Roger E. . . . Continue reading →
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When Officers Subscribe
Wes has good thoughts on the sacred duty of subscribing the Reformed confessions.
Don't Get Caught Reading at a University
Or you might find yourself hauled before some bizarre committee and disciplined (HT: Selwyn Duke). This student was disciplined for reading a history of the KKK. What if he had been actually researching archival KKK publications?
Seminary Saturday: Finals, Commencement, RC, and Bavinck
We’re coming to the end of the Spring semester. Preparations for commencement are reaching their conclusion. Student papers are due this Friday at 10AM (for those of my students who haven’t already turned in their papers). After that, there are a few . . . Continue reading →
Is Sexual Orientation Identical to Race?
Not according to Robert Gagnon and he’s challenging the recent suspension of an administrator at the University of Toledo who dared to challenge the status quo. (HT: Justin Taylor)
Schleiermacher: Father of the Modern and Emergent Theology
Another good post from WSC student and fellow Cornhusker Austin Britton. He is a I think he’s spot on about the nature and effect of Schleiermacher’s radical re-formulation of the Christian faith and the unacknowledged debt the Emergent cats owe to FD.
True Confessions
Sometime back my friend and neighbor Jim Renihan, who directs the Institute for Reformed Baptist Studies that meets on campus at WSC, very graciously gave me a copy of his new edited collection of confessions from the 16th and 17th centuries. In . . . Continue reading →
Uh, You Mean Jesus Isn't My Boyfriend?
Hannah Rosin offers a brief synopsis of Daniel Radosh’s Rapture Ready. What Rosin doesn’t mention is that there have been voices within the Christianity such as the Wittenburg Door (in the 70s), and more seriously the White Horse Inn guys have been examining . . . Continue reading →
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Video on Indigenous African-American PCAs
(HT: Anthony Carter). This is a good start. I love it when one of the pastors says, “I’m Presbyterian by choice and I want to inculcate that into the African-American community.” Amen. This video is very encouraging. Criticisms: well, I hesitate because . . . Continue reading →
Missional and Reformed: Online and Free
The annual January faculty conference focused on the relations between Reformed theology, piety, and practice and the emerging/emergent missional movement(s). The text of the talks are now available for free on the WSC website. They include: Friends or Foes: The Mission and . . . Continue reading →
Coming in June, A Theological Guide to Calvin's Institutes
Edited by Peter Lillback and David Hall, contributors include Mike Horton, Sinclair Ferguson, Bob Godfrey, and many others.
Coming in Sept: Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church
Contributors include: Gary L. W. Johnson (Editor), Ronald N. Gleason (Editor), David F. Wells (Foreword), Paul Wells, John Bolt, Paul Helm, Scott Clark, Paul Kjoss Helseth, Jeffrey Waddington, Guy P. Waters, Phil Johnson, Martin Downes, Greg Gilbert, Gary Gilley
The Killer B's: Idols of the Minister's Heart
New on the Faculty Reflections page at WSC
Our Lady of Whatever
Do all the evangelicals on the verge of poping really want trade in your flannel boards for this? (HT: John Bugay).
Someone's Reading Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant
Okay, she’s a WSC student and she’s in my Medieval-Reformation class and she’s required to read it, but Tricia is reading it nonetheless and she she likes it!
The URCNA Has a Website!
The URC has a new website. It’s clean and easy to use. It’s a good place to start to find out about theology, piety, and practice of the URCNA.