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The Way of Cruciform Friendship

Like many, I have appreciated both letters from my friends, Bryan Chapell and Rick Phillips, about our common denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. The wisdom that both have shared from their particular locations makes me thankful to belong to…

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Do you attend a perfect Church?

You’re in a faithful church, but someone complains about this, that, and the other, and so wants to leave. What do you say?  #1 I agree this church isn’t perfect… #2 This is a perfect church, why would you leave…

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Disunity in Christ

Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2013. $13.99 Christena Cleveland’s Disunity in Christ is an important read for those who–in an increasingly pluralistic yet no less segregated society–call church…

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More Spalled Concrete

In our last two articles, we’ve been dealing with various objections that continue to be offered against a Covenantal approach to apologetics. The objection that we considered last time needs more explanation and discussion that we were able to give…

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More Spalled Concrete

In our last two articles, we’ve been dealing with various objections that continue to be offered against a Covenantal approach to apologetics. The objection that we considered last time needs more explanation and discussion that we were able to give…

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More on the Trinity and divine action

In previous entries in what is becoming an impromptu antiphonal blog series on the Trinity, Fred Sanders and I have focused on the nature and relevance of the doctrine of inseparable operations (see here, here, and here). To this point,…

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A Response to Mark Jones and Gert van den Brink

We’re grateful Oliver Crisp has offered his response to the two reviews of Deviant Calvinism which were published this week. Oliver’s contribution serves to extend an important conversation over the character and sources of Reformed theology ~ Editor  I wish…

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Personal Reflections on “Deviant Calvinism”

How wide or narrow is the Reformed faith? In his recent book, Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology, Fuller Seminary Professor, Oliver Crisp, uses the tools of historical theology and analytic theology to address various questions, such as the broadness of…