Lila Bloody Lays
Lila is a swelling tide. The prose and themes slowly overwhelm, lifting and submerging the reader on grace’s stormy sea. For Lila, the novel’s namesake, flailing in this tide comes naturally. As you lay in your blood, I said to…
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Adam, Where Are You?
Peter Enns blogged this, where he essentially states that church history is not relevant on human origins. Naturally, his views are. Besides the Apostles and Jesus, theologians and pastors over the course of church history have gotten things wrong, according to…
Public Confession: A Mirror or a Portal?
A poignant scene unfolds in Whit Stillman’s remarkable debut film Metropolitan about a group of young people in New York City living on the cusp of a new social age. The scene presents the main characters playing a game called…
Legalism(s)
Legalism is a tricky topic. There isn’t a Christian alive on earth who doesn’t struggle with legalistic tendencies. To diagnose this problem, we need to look at the various types of legalisms that we encounter in the church and in…
Race and the American Church – Part II
This is the second article in the series. One can find the first article here ~ the Editor I thought it might help the reader to know that God has been pulling me into places of racial interaction ever since I…
Exodus and Liberation
John Coffey, Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $34.99 On Saturday March 10, 2015, President Barack Obama spoke on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Selma…
Exodus and Liberation
John Coffey, Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $34.99 On Saturday March 10, 2015, President Barack Obama spoke on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Selma…
Explaining Joel Osteen
Like many of you I find myself wondering from time-to-time why it is that Joel Osteen is able to attract such massive crowds to his church and stadium events. And those books! How is it that there are more than…
Father Abraham’s Father and First True Son: Calvin on Terah (Gen. 11.31-12.9)
Scripture’s account of Terah and Abraham’s departure from Ur of the Chaldeans for Canaan (via Haran) presents Calvin with a difficulty. In Genesis 11.31 it appears that Terah takes the initiative in quitting Chaldea for the greener pastures of some…
A Few More Thoughts on “The State of the PCA”
I’ve been wondering just what we’re supposed to do with Bryan Chapell’s “The State of the PCA” essay in byFaith (available here), beyond praying over the sad state of affairs it describes. Chapell adapted this essay from a private letter…