Month January 2007

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Our Loss, Covenant’s Gain

Many thanks to Ligon for reporting Aaron Messner’s call to Covenant College.  Aaron has exercised a faithful and dynamic ministry at Tenth Church, and we expect him to make a large difference on Covenant’s campus.  His weekly ministry of the Word…

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Genesis 22, Caravaggio, and the Ram

Belatedly, I write to reflect further on Carl Trueman’s Counterpoint (“Close, but No Cigar”).  There Carl writes about his recent visit to a synagogue and the rabbi’s thoughtful homily on Genesis 22, which included everything except the gospel. As I read…

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What is a prophetic voice?

I hate to break up the hilarity in which my good friends Messrs Trotter and Plectrum-Smith seem to be indulging, but I just spent a few moments looking at the webpage of a leading Emergent figure.

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Covenant College’s New Chaplain

Matthew Bryant (Director of Church Relations) and our friend Niel Nielson (President) of Covenant College have just announced that the Rev. Aaron Messner has accepted its offer to become College Chaplain. Aaron will officially join Covenant on June 1, 2007.  …