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How People Change

One of the most important questions we ask prospective pastoral interns at Tenth Church is: “How do people grow spiritually?”  The answer quickly reveals whether or not candidates are grace-oriented in their discipleship and also how well they understand the role…

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The Cain in All of Us

Yesterday my father (Leland Ryken, Professor of English, Wheaton College) sent me a thought-provoking exchange from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden: “If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule–a great…

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Mainline Decline, Part 1

Dave Shiflett has written a provocative book about the decline of liberal Christianity in America and the concomitant ascendancy of historically orthodox Christianity.  The book is called Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity (New York: Sentinel,…

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An oldie but goodie

Wandering in a second-hand bookshop the other day (won’t say it was in a state of ancient disrepair, but the graffitti in the rest room read, variously, `Squeaky Fromme is Innocent’, `Rousas Rushdoony is my Homeboy’ and `Tex Ritter Taught…

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Book Notes

WTS-CA’s most recent faculty symposium is now in print, and the responses are already starting! Is anyone surprised about that? Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral MinistryEssays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California R. Scott Clark Price: 24.99 The doctrine of…

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