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ECT and Ref21 (a personal counterpoint)

On this blog, fellow contributor Jeremy Walker has offered a “rapid response” protest of the first installment, by Timothy George, of a three-part series on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Evangelicals and Catholics Together. In doing so, Walker…

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Moralizing our Children?

As I think about Ephesians 6:1-3, a number of questions come to mind concerning the way I treat my children (ages: 4, 4, 7, 9).  This post does not in fact aim to raise a challenge to Baptists, but rather…

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Registering a protest

For what it is worth, and taking account of the fact that the series has yet to run its course, I would like publicly to distance myself from the stance that has been taken in the recent articles on Evangelicals…

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Pastor’s Dog Appreciation Day

Ref21 is really proud to sponsor this new campaign. Pastor’s Dogs have their own unique set of challenges and pressure that only they can know about. There are normal dogs and even Christian Dogs but none can understand what the…

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Kingdom Conspiracy

Scot McKnight, Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2014. x + 289pp. $21.99 The Kingdom of God has captured the attention and imagination of many recent evangelical writers. Even so, nothing resembling…

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Two Kingdoms Ecumenism

Evangelicals, always a couple decades behind the latest mainline bandwagon, have in recent years become very fired up about ecumenism. And yet, we rarely seem at all sure what it’s supposed to mean. Does it mean that we’re all just…

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That reminds me …

Ah, yes – the answer! Who said this? 1. All the blessings which God hath bestowed upon man are of his mere grace, bounty, or favour; his free, undeserved favour; favour altogether undeserved; man having no claim to the least…

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Stirring words from surprising sources?

With respect to my colleague, Mr Walker and his recent provocative post…  Preparing to lecture recently, I came across these stirring words in some surprising places: 1. Christ is present in his word, since it is he himself who speaks when…