I had the privilege yesterday, along with the other elders of Second Church, of spending the afternoon and evening (before and after evening worship) hearing professions of faith from applicants for membership in our church. As is usual for a city church,…
Now that summer is actually here, I can add my summer reading list. Part of this is based on my delusion that summer will actually slow things down! I always plan my reading in categories, trying to do regular devotional,…
Is Wales really that culturally challenged? You’ll find early footage of Derek singing, Wagner-style, at a Cwmbran Tent Revival meeting here.
Thanks to all who have volunteered to review my list of books. Of the books I posted earlier today, only the following are left: Sharon Heaney CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY FOR LATIN AMERICA: LIBERATION THEMES IN EVANGELICAL PERSPECTIVE (Paternoster) Christopher R. Seitz…
As some of you know I am currently the Review Editor for the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, published jointly by Rutherford House and the Scottish Evangelical Theological Society. With the permission of the Ref21 editor-in-chief, I am going to…
My Summer reading has started with John R. Muether’s new biography of Cornelius Van Til, which I am enjoying. My theological reading list for the next few weeks includes Michael Haykin and Kenneth Stewart’s The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical…
As promised, a gem from The Beauty of God. Here is a stanza from Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner’s “Nunc Dimittis” — part of a series of post 9/11 poems based on a funeral liturgy: We will follow the coffin back down…
Alas, things have been so busy that I have not really entered into the mode of summer reading yet — at least what I would call summer reading. But I did have some long airplane flights last week, so I…
Since I asked all of you about summer reading, I’ll list my own, starting (like Sean) with Andrew McGowan’s, The Divine Authenticity of Scripture (IVP). I read the British version which was called The Divine Spiration…, and I’m hoping the…
In my recent travels and conversations, the topics of Dr. Peter Enns’ book and the author’s relationship with Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia have come up repeatedly. Dr. Enns is the author of Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the…
