Ligon in Cape Town
For those on Twitter, Lig has been posting quotes from the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. Go here:
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The New (Scientist’s) Morality
A friend in London (Steve Clark) has alerted me to this week’s New Scientist which is running a feature with a series of articles about morality, interviewing various ‘luminaries’ about its roots and developments (neuroscientists, philosophers, social anthropologists and the…
Good News on the Film Front
Donald Miller’s sensitive and thoughtful memoir which was, at one point, virtually a second Bible for all those cool Christians looking for anti-consumerist authenticity, is set to be filmed. I look forward to the usual spin offs — Don Miller…
Republocrat: a conversation between Gabe and Derek
Gabe, I’ve been reading (again) Carl’s Republocrat (P&R Publishing) and I’m struck by several things straight out of the gate. First of all, I’m struck by the fact that it is so controversial. Not that I find it controversial, or…
Why You Should Organize Your Personal Theological Library and a Way How
Pastors, students, teachers, and scholars have at least one thing in common: personal theological libraries, whether meager, modest, decent, or deluxe. Unfortunately, many of us have another thing in common: disorganized libraries. Why You Should Organize Your Personal Theological Library…
Anglo-Catholic Dunkirk
The Pope’s recent visit, and the momentum towards appointing women bishops, seems to have nerved the faithful for action as three Bishops serve notice to Canterbury en route to Rome…here … Ruth Gledhill writes: At least three serving Church of England…
John Knox at Prayer
What John Knox did for Scotland is incalculable. By his fortitude, his integrity, and his passion for the gospel he forged a nation that loved the Bible, loved liberty, and influenced the world. For centuries after it was with pride…
Up from the PIt
‘A Planet inspired…’ so ran one of the headlines in a British newspaper today as the world it seems caught up in the joy of families reunited after the long ordeeal of the men traapped in the Chilean mine. ‘We…
Celtic Preaching
From what we are able to glean from the sparse sources of the preaching of the Celtic missionaries, a general pattern emerges. They were energetic and selfless evangelists who sought nothing for themselves but to spend and be spent in…
Missional Musings
Elsewhere in the blogosphere there has been considerable chatter about the issue of what it is to be ‘missional’ arising out of Kevin DeYoung’s excellent seminar at the Desiring God conference. He defined the mission of the church in these…