At Spiritual Friendship, Chris Damian has posted this piece on the true meaning of love. He pushes back on the idea of “love at first sight,” which is really a selfish love. It is based on how the other makes one feel rather than on true knowledge of the other. Here is the meat of his […]
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On “Courage” in the (Christian) Academy
July 7, 2014 
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Another post worth sharing by James K.A. Smith. This time he reflects on claims of “courage” made by scholars (both progressive and conservative) when they risk the derision and scorn of people whose opinion they never really cared about in the first place. Are such scholars really risking anything? But Smith closes with an observation on […]
Continue readingSteadfast Principles in a Changing World
July 6, 2014 1 Comment
A few days ago, the New York Times opinion page included a short piece called “Steadfast Principles in a Changing World” by James K.A. Smith, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, on the subject of Christianity and capitalism. Smith differentiates between the concept of free markets—which is not incompatible with Christianity—and modern-day capitalism. Insofar as capitalism today […]
Continue readingThou Shalt Not Forsake Thy Celibate Christian LGBTQ Brethren
July 5, 2014 0 Comments
Today Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart of Slate Magazine wrote an article about “Side B” Christians. These are followers of Christ who, though fully committed to biblical teachings on marriage and sexuality, nevertheless identify openly as LGBTQ. Most of these Christians choose the difficult—but also potentially very fulfilling—life of celibacy. Others of them choose to enter complementary-sex marriages, in full recognition that […]
Continue readingIs Christianity a Science Showstopper?
July 3, 2014 0 Comments
Over at Reasons to Believe, Dr. Fazale Rana has posted this article addressing the question of whether Christianity inhibits scientific advance. It reminds me of an episode of the recent Fox Television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, in which host Neil deGrasse Tyson opined that whenever someone appeals to a divine explanation for a natural phenomenon, it […]
Continue readingHow Much Did the OT Writers Know? (2): The Spectre of Bibliological Eutychianism
July 3, 2014 0 Comments
Dr. Bill Evans of Erskine College has written a post here regarding a growing theological controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (actually, it seems that the controversy has already been settled unilaterally). At the heart of this controversy is the question, how much did the human authors of the Old Testament know when they were […]
Continue readingEcclesial Collaboration
July 1, 2014 0 Comments
In Kyle’s earlier post, “What is a Culturalist Presbyterian?” He emphasized the value “CP’s” place on cross-denominational unity. In light of that I wanted to share a blog post Carl Trueman wrote for Scot McKnight. McKnight also wrote a favorable review of Carl’s recent book “The Creedal Imperative.” This is a great example of two […]
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