Easters
Last year I forgot it was Easters, likely due to the fact that I had just returned home from South Africa and was jet-lagged. I prepared my sermon on Genesis, and only realized when it was too late that it…
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“Saved by his life”: reflections on Jesus’ resurrection
According to Carl Braaten, the gospel’s claim that God raised Jesus from the dead requires us to address two questions: the question of whether it happened and the question of what happened. The former question–what we might call, “the apologetic…
Interview with the Librarian (2)
For Part 1 of the Interview with Sandy Finlayson see here You are not uncritical of the men in this ‘Unity and Diversity’, particularly ‘Rabbi Duncan’, I found your chapter on him the most incisive, why is his story so…
Adam Broke 10 Commandments in the Garden
What commandments did Adam break in the Garden when he and his wife ate from the tree which God commanded them not to eat from (Gen. 2:16-17; 3:6)? I believe he broke all ten commandments, not just one or two…
Happily Ever After? Thoughts on the Ending of the Acts of the Apostles [pt. 2]
Why did Luke end Acts in the way that he did? The closing verses of Acts 28 serve, in part, to demonstrate Luke’s point that the mission of the apostle Paul is a complete one. But in what sense is…
Happily Ever After? Thoughts on the Ending of the Acts of the Apostles [pt. 2]
Why did Luke end Acts in the way that he did? The closing verses of Acts 28 serve, in part, to demonstrate Luke’s point that the mission of the apostle Paul is a complete one. But in what sense is…
Interview with the Librarian (1)
Sandy Finlayson and I have never met. We often correspond; sharing a great love for the Two Ronnies and the winding up Carl Trueman. Sandy is not only the Director of Library Services at Westminster Seminary, he is an OPC…
Two-Kingdoms Pastoring [part 3]
This is the third in a series exploring the theology of Two Kingdoms across a variety of topics. The first article can be found here, and the second here – Editor It’s tough being a pastor. I know because I’ve never dared try,…
A Stone of Hope
David L. Chappell. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of Chapel Hill Press, 2004. 344 pages. $27.95. David L. Chappell’s A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim…
The Terrible Speed of Mercy
Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. xviii+186, $15.99. Given Flannery O’Connor’s hallowed standing in American Literature and the undeniable influence she continues to have on artists and theologians of…