Republocrat
One of the reasons I like hanging out with Carl Trueman is that he seems to have a reckless disregard for his reputation. What I mean is that he cares more about being truthful than he does about being liked.…
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Carl Trueman’s latest book, Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative (P & R), is due out shortly and you can find a video discussion of the book here by our friends in Christ the Center. Perhaps I should not mention that…
Inconsistent Pro-lifers…
Randy Alcorn is one of the most articulate pro-lifers I know of. He is also a man who has paid a high price (literally) for his commitment to the weakest, most vulnerable members of the human family. In an interview…
Where rejection of biblical orthodoxy ultimately leads
Michael Dowd is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a graduate of Palmer Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is also enthusiastic about the rise of the new atheists. A self-proclaimed “evangelist” for evolution, Rev. Dowd’s words…
Luther On Being a Theologian II
The first thing that makes a theologian, according to Luther, is the grace of the Spirit. This is the foundation on which all else rests, as it is this which defines the theologian as a human being. I noted yesterday…
Luther On Being a Theologian II
The first thing that makes a theologian, according to Luther, is the grace of the Spirit. This is the foundation on which all else rests, as it is this which defines the theologian as a human being. I noted yesterday…
August 10: Ruth 3-4
If, yesterday, we saw in Ruth 2 a depiction of godly woman, Ruth 3 gives us the counterpart depiction of a godly man, one that emerges in the unbearably tense situation to which he was exposed. For, at dead of…
Leave out Christ? – Charles Spurgeon on the right Subject of our preaching
“The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then…
What Jesus said about the Scriptures
The latest issue of The White Horse Inn focuses on what Jesus said about the Scriptures. You will notice that Jesus’ opinion of the Scripture’s reliability is far different from that of the bloggers at Biologos. Having established in previous…
Benedict and Catholicism
My good Catholic friend, the well-known German lay intellectual, Count Wolfram von Hofmeister-Behr, has brought to my attention this article, outlining Benedict XVI’s thirty year campaign to undo the liberalizing trends of Vatican II. One thing perplexes me, however, as…