Is Your Spiritual Life a Battle?
Do you ever feel like life doesn’t get any easier? The world is throwing you punches and all you can do is duck and dodge? Do you feel like just living day-to-day is like a climb uphill? Your spiritual life…
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A Response to Mark Jones and Gert van den Brink
We’re grateful Oliver Crisp has offered his response to the two reviews of Deviant Calvinism which were published this week. Oliver’s contribution serves to extend an important conversation over the character and sources of Reformed theology ~ Editor I wish…
Personal Reflections on “Deviant Calvinism”
How wide or narrow is the Reformed faith? In his recent book, Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology, Fuller Seminary Professor, Oliver Crisp, uses the tools of historical theology and analytic theology to address various questions, such as the broadness of…
Dear Bryan: Replying to “The State of the PCA”
This week a letter titled The State of the PCA was published by Bryan Chapell in By Faith, the denominational magazine of the PCA. This public letter is another of the many takes in recent years on our denomination from…
Team Spin Takes Yale Divinity School, Part Two
While Aimee was off not doing stairs and trying to become a female Bond villain, on Tuesday the rest of Team Spin was refreshing the parts ot the theological world which other, more transformational, evangelical organizations cannot reach. Day Two…
Where I Make a Fool Out of Myself with Nunchucks:
My new book, Theological Fitness: Why We Need A Fighting Faith, is now available (May 15th). Part of my contract with P&R is to provide a brief book trailer. That puts me in a bind right away because book trailers…
An Analysis of “Deviant Calvinism” (Part 1)
The question of how diverse the Reformed tradition is is an important topic of consideration. I have co-edited a volume on Reformed diversity in the seventeenth century, and later this year I have another co-edited volume coming out on Reformed…
Gratitude for Government: Calvin contra Contempt for Civil Authority
In Calvin’s estimation, the Christian life is properly one of constant gratitude. Gratitude bears fruit in holiness — we can and should say “thank you” to God with our lives as well as our lips. The root of gratitude is…
Team Spin Takes Yale Divinity School, Part One
Todd and I are spending much of this week attending a private Church Leadership and Growth seminar at Yale Divinity School, organized by my old postgraduate friend, Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History and co-editor with me…
Van Gogh Isn’t the Only One Missing an Ear
Confronting someone who is in sin or error with the truth is a very sensitive topic. As we strive to teach with truth in love, Christians often disagree about delivery. At times it’s hard to discern when we are being…