At Reformation 21, New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole has written a review of N.T. Wright’s massive new volume, Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Fortress, 2013). Considering that the book itself is about 1,600 pages, Gathercole has done a remarkable job of distilling Wright’s main ideas in relatively little space. Gathercole says that the main thesis of PFG is: […]
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“Was Bonhoeffer Gay?” And Other Adventures in Missing the Point
July 22, 2014 
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Trevin Wax has posted this review on The Gospel Coalition on the subject of a new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer called Strange Glory by Deckle Edge (Knopf, 2014). In this biography, Edge suggests that Bonhoeffer may have been gay (even though he died a virgin), and experienced sexual attraction toward his close friend Eberhard Bethge. The gist of Wax’s […]
Continue reading An Untempered Schism
July 22, 2014 0 Comments
Regardless of how one pronounces it, a schism is a serious thing. The division of the Church into East and West, and the rift opened up between Wittenberg and Rome are some of the saddest realities in the Body of Christ. The ever stimulating Peter Leithart has a new blog post wherein he reviews Deep […]
Continue reading Radical(ly Normal)
July 21, 2014 0 Comments
Shane Lems has written this book review on The Reformed Reader (HT: The Aquila Report). The book happens to be authored by a close friend of mine, Josh Kelley, who pastored the church I attended while living in Mt. Vernon, Washington (my hometown). As a matter of fact, I had the privilege of helping Josh with the editorial process for this book. […]
Continue reading The Immigration Debate: Two Christian Perspectives
July 11, 2014 5 Comments
Immigration reform has been a major topic of discussion for quite a while, but it seems to have gained a bit more attention lately. First I heard about InterVarsity Press’s release of Immigration: Tough Questions, Direct Answers by Dale Hanson Bourke, and then last week I read this interview of Bourke at Christianity Today. And then today, I […]
Continue reading Two Approaches to the Church’s Mission
July 2, 2014 1 Comment
Christopher Wright. The Mission of God’s People. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010. Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert. What Is the Mission of the Church? Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. Imagine that you are responsible for drafting your church’s budget for the upcoming year. Further suppose that a large portion of the budget has traditionally been allocated to a certain […]
Continue readingMy Summer Reading List
June 30, 2014 0 Comments
Roy Clouser. The Myth of Religious Neutrality. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. So I am currently on a kick against modernist philosophy, and its pretentions to “objectivity.” I’m also searching for a coherent alternative to secular political philosophy. So books like this will come in handy. James K. A. Smith. Imagining the Kingdom. […]
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