Blog
Preaching Christology or Preaching Christ: What is Preaching?
Good teaching begins with definitions. Effective schoolteachers tell their students what they are doing and why in order help students learn well. This often means defining terms specific to each subject. Math students need to learn what a hypotenuse is…
Hierarchy and Subordination vs. Headship and Household Mission
Brad Mason has been writing some thought-provoking and very helpful articles for his new website, Heart & Mouth. After posting an article on Complementarity Without Subordination yesterday, he tagged a few of us on Twitter, asking about our thoughts on…
Wise Technological Parenting
It is the apex of foolishness for parents to allow their children to have free and unaccountable access to technology– smart phones, tablets, iPods, computers, etc. Before I explain the reasons why I believe this, I want to make clear, in…
Virtue Rewarded, Beauty and the Beast, and 50 Shades
So in my latest obsession with New England women living around the times of 1650-1750ish, I keep coming across the mention of a popular fiction book that was all the rage, Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson. It’s about…
Luther, Beer and 1522
I have received unexpected and unsolicited gifts of two drinking vessels recently. The first, from the person we at the Spin know simply as Evil Amy the Less, the author who last year had the slanderous temerity to base (and…
The Descent of Man
Reading Augustine's De Trinitate this semester with a group of students, I was struck by this brilliant analysis of the way that sin operates. It comes from Book XII: "For just as a snake does not walk with open…
Ecclesiastical Eclipse: Evangelicalism and the Reformation
The Reformation’s heritage–a topic of intensifying reflection as this quincentenary year rolls on–will be the theme of the Evangelical Theological Society’s annual meeting in Providence, RI. This is a good thing; however, my expectations are limited because the broadly evangelical…
The Ecclesiastical Pendulum Swing
I was baptized in the Reformed Episcopal church, spent time in Reformed Presbyterian Churches (mainly PCA and OPC) as a boy, was extremely rebellious and dechurched for over a decade, came to Christ in repentance and faith in my 20’s…
Redemptive History, Union with Christ and the Liturgical Calendar
The word “liturgy” continues to be a trendy–yet often indeterminate–buzzword among young(er-ish) Christians. This is especially so with regard to those who have recently made the shift away from broad evangelicalism and toward historic worship practices of Christendom. Alongside this…