Drawing too many conclusions from descriptive passages is hermeneutically perilous. Revelation 5 is descriptive of heavenly worship and not necessarily prescriptive of worship here on earth. There are aspects of it which are non-transferable to our gathered worship settings on…
Drawing too many conclusions from descriptive passages is hermeneutically perilous. Revelation 5 is descriptive of heavenly worship and not necessarily prescriptive of worship here on earth. There are aspects of it which are non-transferable to our gathered worship settings on…
Shortly after posting on Stephen Lungu, I received a sobering update on his work right now in Kenya. Where the following information says “AE” it is referring to African Enterprise, an evangelical ministry of word and deed that was founded…
Our father/son book group (The James Montgomery Boice Literary Society) just finished reading Out of the Black Shadows. The book tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Lungu, who was abandoned by his parents at a young age, joined a violent…
Over the last few days I have been devouring Michael Ward’s remarkable new interpretation of The Narnia Chronicles by C. S. Lewis. The book is called Planet Narnia, and it was published this month by Oxford University Press. Dr. Ward…
I wonder too if the drift to Rome isn’t caused by the dramatic loss of a sense of humour in Protestantism. Frankly, Catholic writers seem to have more fun most of the time; and humour is a great way of…
I think the attraction of Rome is in large part generated by the fact that one needs a reason not to be Catholic, and that the classic Protestant reasons for not being so have largely vanished — three of the…
It certainly is remarkable to witness such core evangelical institutions as InterVarsity and Urbana now showing openness and (is it possible?) even turning to Roman Catholicism. But I think that with hindsight, we can see at least some of the…
Here. And here. And here.
“In a wide-ranging interview, the Canadian Anglican theologian J.I. Packer talked with David W. Virtue about the state of the Anglican Communion at the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) Winter Conference in Dallas, Texas.” Note this line in particular:…
