[For the explanation of this series and the first post, see here; see here for installments two and three. There will be a final application post tomorrow.] Even as the 1960s came toward a close, Nelson Bell continued to advocate…
[For an explanation of the series and the first post, see here; for the second post, see here] Other churches were not as interested in dialogue. Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee, drew national attention for its refusal to admit mixed-race…
[For an explanation of this series and the first post, see here.] Even with Taylor and Bell’s moderation on racial issues, there were those in conservative ranks who were determined to maintain racial integrity. W. A. Gamble, stated clerk of…
Over at Justin Taylor’s blog at the Gospel Coalition, I contributed to a historians’ forum that sought to answer certain questions on southern evangelicals and their failures on Civil Rights. My answer particular focused on southern Presbyterian conservatives, many of…
Like most Americans, I was astonished by the brazen and inept lies told by NBC anchorman Brian Williams about his faux exploits while covering the war in Iraq. Moreover, I find his precipitous fall (which surely is accelerating even as…
Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Church History at Yale University Divinity School, has made some wonderful contributions to the scholarly world of church history. Bruce and I first met at a monastery, of all places, in January 1989,…
The early days of January 2015 have been disturbing ones for Western Europe and the ‘democratic’ world generally, as the streets of Paris have been visited with devastating violence and death manifesting the fruits of a totalitarian Islamic ideology growing…
I’m off to South Africa tomorrow for a few weeks, then to North Carolina and South Carolina, then to the China, and then to Hong Kong, all for teaching and preaching purposes (Jas. 4:15). So the flurry of posts of…
One of the problems with the stadium events of Big Eva to which I have occasionally pointed is that they showcase pastors who by definition do not have pastorates that are in any sense normal. There is thus a danger…
Without a hint of shame or embarrassment or any sort of profound internal conflict, Jesus openly admits he is–or at least was, while living under the conditions of the fall and fulfilling all righteousness for us–ignorant of at least one…
