Summer Reading
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas RicksI’m a few chapters into this and am already hooked. It is the story of how these two men, so different from each other, found a common cause in the…
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Self-Care or Sabbath?
A recent NPR article profiled what it called “the millennial obsession with self-care.”1 Apparently, the millennial generation is engaging in the practice of self-care with a surprising frequency and intensity that a multi-billion dollar industry has been built up around it. Yet…
Sexual Identity Conference
Our friends at Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, GA are hosting a conference with Rosaria Butterfield this Friday night. The theme of the conference is “Sexual Identity and Union with Christ.” There will be a Q&A time after her talk. …
Rethinking School Contractual Pledges after the Maddi Runkles Case
The MoS team just finished a prerecording discussing Heritage Christian School’s handling of the teenage pregnancy of Maddi Runkles, a senior with a 4.0 grade point average and the now former president of the student council. It will air on…
Justifying a Non-Repeatable Justification
As there has been no small debate in recent decades over the doctrine of justification, I was delighted to come across a treatment of the once-for-all nature of justification in Geerhardus Vos’ Reformed Dogmatics. Having introduced the subject by explaining…
Cruciform Suffering
The fact that the incarnate Son of God “learned obedience” (Heb. 5:8) is an essential aspect of Jesus’ human nature and so is indispensable to sound Christology and soteriology. Apart from the cross itself, the clearest example we have of…
A Christian in the Secular Academy
When many individuals think of the life of a college professor, the general perception they have formed (fueled by articles such as this) is that we only work for a few days a week and have the entire summer “off.”…
In Defense of the Sabbatical
Pastoral ministry often feels like a 24/7 calling. A pastor can’t leave the care of the people of God at the door of the office when the clock strikes 5 PM. While pastoring in the First World requires considerably less…
These Present Sufferings
As I write, the United Kingdom is still reeling from the latest terrorist atrocity to be unleashed in one of our major cities. It was particularly horrific in that it was deliberately targeted at children and teenagers attending a pop…
Dr. Trueman Goes to Princeton
Congratulations are in order to our own Carl Trueman. He will be the William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University for academic year 2017-18. It is part of the James Madison Program in…