Evangelicalism Articles
Friday, January 1st, 2010I’ve been reading two very interesting articles that are not specifically about evangelicalism but both deal with the subject. Since I want to end on a good note, I’ll handle my least favorite of the two first. Why is there no joy in the Reformed camp asks Anthony Selvaggio over at the Reformation21 blog? Why [...]
J. I. Packer is Still The Man!
Monday, December 28th, 2009The Washington Post did a brief interview with Packer. He has many good things to say and the interview is worth reading. Here’s on thing I was glad to hear: I think that the number of lively evangelical Christians in North America is, in fact, increasing. I think that if overall statistics show that churches [...]
What Has Modernism Done to Our Belltowers?
Thursday, September 10th, 2009I heard a story on BBC World on the way to work this morning that has kind of stuck in my head. Partly because it takes place in the part of England in which Lisa and I met and in the town Ben was born in. But there is more to it also. Church bells [...]
Calvin Should Have Known
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009I was very impressed with Timothy George’s brief article in Christianity Today about the execution of Michael Servetus in Calvin’s Geneva. George doesn’t excuse Calvin and he does a very good job of putting the event in context without likewise slaying Calvin. Here’s the heart of it: Calvin worked with a more medieval understanding of [...]
Gimme That Ole Time Civil Religion
Thursday, August 28th, 2008This is really a follow up to Whither Fundamentalism. More from Wood’s book on O’Connor. The history of the thing is what gets me. Sometimes we can look back at the 1950s with nostalgia, nearly all of America went to church. Surely those were better times. Family values reigned on TV: Ricky and Lucy, though [...]
Whither Fundamentalism?
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008First, I have to define what I mean by ‘fundamentalism’. The word today has taken on a huge and grotesque meaning. What it meant originally was Protestants who held to the inerrancy of the Bible and the reality of miracles. The term came about when a group of these Christians authored a four volume set [...]
World Conquerers?
Thursday, June 12th, 2008This was going to be a “these two things” post but the subject matter didn’t seem to lend itself to it. First, you’ve probably seen the news reports of the “oldest church” (please attached the word ‘building’ to the end of that) being discovered in Jordan. Archeology is interesting but the building isn’t what got [...]
Sufficient Consequences?
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Benjamin Keach is a favorite Particular Baptist of mine. Here’s a good quote of his on infant baptism from the Institute for Reformed Baptist Studies: From Benjamin Keach: Gold Refin’d, or Baptism in its Primitive Purity (London: 1689), 69-70, 146 (orthography and punctuation modernized). What commission our brethren have got, who sprinkle children, I know [...]
Benedict Heart Luther?
Thursday, March 6th, 2008According to a Times On Line article titled "That Martin Luther? He wasn’t so bad, says Pope." Pope Benedict is going to lift the charge of heresy from Luther’s shoulders. I’m sure Martin will be happy about that. So is this it? Does Rome and Protestantism kiss and make up? is the Reformation over? Eh, [...]
Calvin on Missions: The Gathering
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007This keeps coming up lately! The caricature of John Calvin that we live with today is that of a cold, calculating person with a pointy head and zero passion. The truth is far from that. Once you actually start reading the Institutes you find out that Calvin was passionate about God. The Institutes at times [...]
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