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A Good Creed Seldom Goes Unpunished

On the issue of creeds, the evangelical world often seems absolutely divided into two broad camps: There are those who are so passionately committed to a particularly narrow view of scripture’s sufficiency that they not only deny the need for…

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The Golden Compass – Snoresville

Well, it turns out that the much-ballyhooed Golden Compass is a crashing bore. I finally got around to seeing it last night. There were three other people in the theater. Several things struck me. 1. Yes, the movie’s production quality…

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Paying a price on the Women’s Issue

Our good friend, Stafford Carson — formerly Academic Dean at Westminster Theological Seminary and now minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Portadown, Northern Ireland — has made the headlines over Christmas by refusing to allow a female minister to…

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Confessions of a Bog-Standard Evangelical

Recently, a fellow historian at another Christian institution commented to me about the growing number of Presbyterian prophets who make their reputations on the back of bashing evangelicalism, while at the same time being dependent upon the publishing houses and…

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Confessions of a Bog-Standard Evangelical

Recently, a fellow historian at another Christian institution commented to me about the growing number of Presbyterian prophets who make their reputations on the back of bashing evangelicalism, while at the same time being dependent upon the publishing houses and…

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We’ll Have to Pray to Make It

I was delighted by our church’s recent decision to increase our budget by something like 23% for coming fiscal year.  Now, there is some context for this.  The 2007 budget involved a scaling back, as the church began the year…

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Merry Christmas

Some good theological reflections here from David Mathis: Advent and the Incarnation Jesus Is Fully Human What Is the Hypostatic Union? The Virgin Birth