Dallas Willard, The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus. Harper One, 2015. 208 pages, hardcover. $26.99 One of the most exciting developments of the last two decades has been the rapid growth–nay, explosion–of top-notch apologists…
“And a good work it is, no doubt, to pare off all unnecessary occasions of debate and differences in religion, provided we go not so near the quick as to let out any of its vital spirits.” John Owen Part…
As a faculty member at RTS/Jackson, one of the great privileges that I have is to teach the first year, first semester class, “Introduction to Pastoral and Theological Studies.” This class is meant as an orientation to seminary. One of…
I begin every semester in my Church and Sacraments course with the following quotation from Martin Luther, which Karl Barth used “In Place of a Foreword” to introduce Church Dogmatics, volume 1.2. The quotation says so much about the relationship…
In the world of comic books, people don’t get more evil than the Joker, but thankfully Batman exists to restrain the evil that the Joker unleashes on Gotham City. The struggle between Batman and the Joker entertains us, but these…
In the world of comic books, people don’t get more evil than the Joker, but thankfully Batman exists to restrain the evil that the Joker unleashes on Gotham City. The struggle between Batman and the Joker entertains us, but these…
As a writing instructor, I do my best to resist the urge to gripe about poor prose, but I’m especially irked by turbid theology in print–and even more so when a top publishing company has seen fit to endorse it.…
My dear friends: This coming Sunday morning, I plan on mentioning C. S. Lewis’s essay on “The Inner Ring.” I would encourage you to read it (or reread it as the case may be). You can find it on the…
Our readers may be interested in this video, which looks at topics such as Cultivating Awe in the Presence of God, Christian Meditation and Knowing Christ. J.I. Packer is always worth listening to. We did manage to talk about his writing…
This is the second (and final) part to the report. One can read the first part here ~ the editor …The ‘nothingness’ that enters into human experience through acts of sin is something of which Augustine was acutely aware when…
