An Online Resource for Puritan Studies
Tony Reinke’s “The Puritan Study” series over at The Shepherd’s Scrapbook is an excellent help for pastors wanting to incorporate Puritan literature into their devotional diet and ministry preparation.
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Talking Torture with the Green Berets
Jason, Thanks for linking to that excellent symposium. I attached a long comment to the original blog site that presents my full argument against torture, which readers can find here. Also, I had the great privilege a month or so…
When Is a Confession not a Confession?
I will delay answering the above question until the end of the article. Instead, I want to start by noting that Father Richard John Neuhaus has some good fun at Protestantism’s expense in the latest First Things. In the priceless…
Symposium on Torture
Rick, if you and others are interested, Joe Carter (of the Evangelical Outpost) blog and I sponsored an online symposium last year on the issue of torture. It can be found here. The responses appear in alphabetical order: Darrell Cole…
Surrendering the High Ground on Torture
Another op ed piece in the Wasthington Post today (I’m visiting my mother in D. C. this week) was written by Eugene Robinson. This one was titled “Torture Is Torture.” He first gives practical reasons why America should not sanction…
“Enough Apologies”
The tiff over Pope Benedict’s anti-Islam remarks, and his subsequent quasi-apology, presented an interesting interplay between supposed papal infallibility and political pragmatism. Of course, Benedict was not speaking ex cathedra during his visit to the University of Regensburg, but that distinction is…
Race and Responsibility
Phil, thanks for raising the question about covenantal contexts and responsibility with regard to race. I think you may have landed here on a genuine disagreement between us. My fear is that in having such an expansive understanding of “covenant”…
To Ehrman is Human
Writing in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dallas Seminary’s Daniel Wallace explains why Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus became such a publishing phenomenon. Why would a book on textual criticism, of all things, sell…
Christ as Atonement and Example, Part 2
More from Charles Spurgeon on preaching the whole work of Christ: “He did not merely come to save us from the guilt of sin, but he came to save us from the power of sin. He does not merely bring…
I guess I’m losing it
Justin — do you know, I can’t recall where I delivered them. But then I’m told my lectures are a bit like the sixties — if you can remember them, then you weren’t really there.