Category: Christian controversy

This type of article always leaves me a bit disoriented for a day or two. Depressed might be to strong a word, but it's close. A friend of mine tells the story of a Hare Krishna that he met once, back in the day, in a...

'Tis the season (no, not that one yet), to be politic. At my church we did just that a couple weeks ago, with a lecture and discussion on political engagement (click on the link for audio). My part of the event was to talk...

I wrote this on a discussion board where we were talking about how the Bible applies to various controversies. Since these days I'm struggling to keep up with the blog, I thought: "this is brilliant! I'll just repost...

Being the biblically oriented kind of guy I am, I have always been a bit stand-offish about the doctrines of omnipotence (God can do all things), omniscience (God knows all things) and omnipresence (God is everywhere).  It's not...

Yesterday I headed up to Regent College with some friends to hear Scott McKnight expound on the meaning of the gospel in a provocatively sub-titled conference, "How the Plan of Salvation Obscures the Gospel." I was generally...

I mentioned this book on justification  a while back, saying that as soon as I got some cash I would pick it up. Well, Cathy has been reading my blog, and she picked it up for me for Christmas. A funny thing happened, though....

Rachel Held Evans and Mark Driscoll;  Hawaii and Maine, Florida and Alaska; opposite poles on the map of contemporary evangelicalism.  He the shameless biblical chauvinist complementarian, she the thoughtful progressive...

Farewell Rob Bell: we've moved on to other controversies now. In the latest Norm Geisler has taken up once again the standard of "defender of Orthodoxy, with particular reference to innerancy." Last year Mike Licona wrote a...

Evangelical Christians are probably most used to "Paul's version of the Gospel," as illustrated in this statement by RC Sproul, the brunt of which is: all humans have sinned against a holy God and they deserve eternal damnation....

The next time I have a few bucks, Justification: Five Views is the book I'm buying. Not only is it very timely given the debates these days between traditional reformed views and NPP (New Perspective on Paul), as probably...