Reading Luther
If reading about Luther’s life is essential as a means of orienting you to understanding his theology, the next thing is to read that theology for yourself. …
Category Postcards from Palookaville
Building a Luther Library
As October looms, so does Reformation season. And this year, of course, we stand on the threshold of the 500th anniversary of the posting by Luther of his Ninety-Five Theses Against Indulgences. Next year will no doubt bring a bumper…
Luther 500
As 2017, the 500th anniversary of the nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses to that infamous door, looms, we can expect a deluge of Luther materials. It is going to be the nearest thing to church history heaven on earth for…
A New Psalms Album
A few weeks ago I received a small package from a man announcing himself as the father of one Wendell Kimbrough, and containing his son's new cd of Psalms. I always wince at such arrivals on the grounds that I…
New Translation of Gn. 3:16
I use the ESV and so does my church. I enjoy it as a translation, though sometimes prefer the TNIV for narrative sections. I am no biblical linguist, so that is a purely aesthetic judgment based upon readability. Scot…
All About Identity
Why has this Trinitarian issue generated such passion? Given the fact that the EFS/ERAS/anti-eternal generation view has been shown to be wrong, why has there been no ‘We’re sorry we misled the church for so long. We recant our errors.…
In the end, it all comes down to this.
I was interviewed on Wednesday for a forthcoming movie about the New Calvinism. Afterwards, the interviewer commented on how kind and charitable my comments had been compared to my writings on the subject. I responded that that was of course…
Rachel Miller on CBMW and EFS/ERAS
Rachel Miller has a fine post tracing the relationship between CBMW and EFS/ERAS. It is also helpful in highlighting connections (which I was told I misrepresented in my first post on the subject) between various of the headlining Big Eva…
It’s the economy!
Perhaps the most significant result of the recent Trinity/complementarian combat has been the way it has hopefully revealed to a wider audience what has been clear to many for a long time: the economy of power and influence that exists…
The Looking Glass War: Responding to Bruce Ware
We see that Dr. Ware has issued an open letter to the three of us. Over the last four weeks, Dr. Ware's critics have offered on this webpage and elsewhere masses of evidence and argument demonstrating that his position is…