Month December 2007

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Building Bridges 6

Tom Ascol over at Founders has some concluding thoughts about the Building Bridges Conference (Building Bridges Conference–final thoughts). Dr. Ascol was a co-sponsor with Dr. Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Seminary. You may also link to the conference audio from…

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Bird’s Eye View

Michael Bird has written to say that he has made a constructive response to my essay on justification and union with Christ — an essay in which I mention Dr. Bird as someone who in my view collapses imputation into…

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T.F. Torrance (1913-2007)

Theologian T. F. Torrance died Dec 2. He was eulogized today by George Husinger, who described his various roles as theologian, ecumenist, church leader, translator, interdisciplinary theologian, and historian of doctrine.

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Award of Merit

True Confession: I have a growing stack of materials near my computer — items I intend to blog about, sometime, but haven’t managed to get to just yet. In flipping through the stack today I noticed something I wanted to…

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Abortion Question

LTI posts this great question to ask all the “pro-choice” presidential candidates(Next Democrat Debate [SK]).

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Singapore Youth for Christ

I am leaving Monday for a ten-day trip to the Far East.  The main purpose of the trip is to speak at the annual Bible conference of Singapore Youth for Christ (SYFC), an effective evangelical ministry for training disciples to…

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On Reading Non-Christian Authors

As the son of an English professor and a firm believer in common grace, I would be the last person to say that Christians should not read non-Christian literature. I do believe, however, that Christian parents should exercise cautious oversight…

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In Defense of Criticizing Pullman

To my surprise, a number of readers have written to challenge my critique of Philip Pullman’s theology.  I say “to my surprise” because in recent years I have read a number of articles by or interviews with Philip Pullman in…