I got an e-mail from Eric on Monday letting me know that he was done blogging here at BtT and I was able to read his post and have a few days to decide what to do before his post dropped.
And I decided that I’ll follow his lead and stop blogging at BtT as well.
I’d [...]
May
28
Follow up to Eric’s post
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May
27
The Curtain is Calling (Goodbye)
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Well, it’s been a good run, but the time has come. Those of you who are regular readers know that, for a variety of reasons, I’ve been slowly fading in my posting regularity over the last few months. Platitudes about my busy life aside, I think the time has come to make a decision and [...]
May
22
A two sentence mini-rant about evangelical invocation of Romans 13
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Might I suggest Romans 13 is not the one-size-fits-all justification for submitting to every form of governmental perversions? After all, the dude who wrote it was executed as a traitor to the state.
May
20
For the church history nerds…
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You’ll enjoy these.
Here’s a few samples:
May
19
The r/fight to swear?
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In the past year there has been no shortage in controversy amongst evangelicals about language and particularly the issue of obscenity/profanity. And with Derek Webb’s latest announcement that his record’s release is being held up due to a disagreement with his label about a particular song (rumored to contain profanity stronger in nature than that [...]
May
18
Michael Bell on Church Demographics
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Check out this guest post by Michael Bell over at the iMonk. Then come back and reread Eric’s excellent post from last fall dealing with similar issues.
May
16
What is the Gospel? Pt. 4
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So yesterday we left our heroes - Machen, Scofield, Sunday, and the rest - in an awkward coalition whose primary commonality was a shared disdain for the liberalism - which was termed “modernism” in their day - that had taken over northern churches. And we said the theology that emerged was essentially the basic points [...]
May
15
What is the Gospel? Pt. 3
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Note: This is part of an ongoing series. Part 1, Part 2.
First, we’ll need to describe the basic view-point Tullian is getting at in Unfashionable. The way of thinking espoused by Tullian is largely novel in the broadly evangelical movement in the USA so the discussion has arose as a result of this view’s challenge [...]
May
13
Journalism Fail
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Embedded video from CNN Video
May
13
Thank Me Later
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New Wilco album being streamed on their website.
Enjoy.