This is my third post on the remarkable fossil of the lemur named “Ida.” My original post lampooned the breathless excitement and characteristic overstatements from some within the scientific community. I believed then and believe now that those statements deserved…
What is repentance? Both the Hebrew and the Greek vocabulary for repentance signify a turning, and this brings Calvin to his definition: ‘it is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and…
Here’s another quotation from Marquart, this time on the language of `politics:’ Church politics, like beauty, is largely in the eye of the beholder. My “politics” is likely to be somebody else’s “responsible leadership” and vice versa. It all depends…
Here’s another quotation from Marquart, this time on the language of `politics:’ Church politics, like beauty, is largely in the eye of the beholder. My “politics” is likely to be somebody else’s “responsible leadership” and vice versa. It all depends…
Readers of Ref21 will know that, given my understanding of the importance of the church and her courts, I don’t like trials by blog, petition, or tabloid press. When someone has an issue with an office bearer in their denomination,…
Readers of Ref21 will know that, given my understanding of the importance of the church and her courts, I don’t like trials by blog, petition, or tabloid press. When someone has an issue with an office bearer in their denomination,…
Does it surprise anyone that the following words from an AP article have not gotten much play? Experts not connected with the discovery said the finding was remarkably complete because of features like stomach contents. But they questioned the conclusions…
Over at Green Baggins (one the best blogs on the web) is having a very helpful discussion on the issue of inerrancy. Check it our HERE.Pay special attention to the comments by Rick Phillips. Pastor Phillips is one of my…
Check out this helpful website from Westminster Theological Seminary.
On the recommendation of Peter Hastie, I obtained a copy of Kurt E Marquardt’s Anatomy of an Explosion: Missouri in Lutheran Perspective, an account of the amazing confessional resurgence in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in the 1960s and 70s. …
