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Making It Plain: Explaining the Trinity in Laymen's Terms?
A pastor friend of mine asked me yesterday if I could give her an example of how to talk about the doctrine of the Trinity to a layperson. One visitor to her church stopped by and told her that at...
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Just ordered: J. Kameron Carter's Race: A Theological Account
Today, I ordered all of my books for class on Amazon.com and half.com. CJ is finally going to have his request granted. This semester, I am going to read and more than likely use as a model for my...
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Above All gods
Divine Transcendence, Philosophy, and Empire according to Clement of Alexandria, Karl Barth, and James Hal Cone Recently, I have been going through a theological transformation. It has not been...
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Second Book Review for JRER
Celucien Joseph on Race: A Theological Account Celucien Joseph of Christ My Righteousness did a book review for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion on J. Kameron Carter’s Race: A Theological...
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I'm Back
Well. Been on a blogging hiatus. Left for Los Angeles, CA for the Wesleyan Theological Society annual meeting. Very interesting presentations that I have taken notes on and will post on tonight and...
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Nancy Pelosi, Biblical Theologian?
Warning :this is not a Partisan attack but An Adventure in “Kuperian” Christianity Last week I posted on Abraham Kuyper and Woodrow Wilson. I think they are the best examples I can give of persons...
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Wisdom Wording of the Day
If Ever Something Said Could be True about me, this is it! “That I have spent my life thinking about God, moreover, has gotten me into a lot of trouble.” From: Stanley Hauerwas: The Surprise of Being a...
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Self-Critique and Me: Rod
An exercise of admitting my blind spots This is my response to commenter who wanted us to engage in critical self-reflection. Once upon a time in a far away place, there was this one person who nagged...
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The New Calvinism: Astroturf or Grassroots Movement?
There was a lingering debate during the 2010 mid-term elections season whether or not the Tea Party Movement/One Nation/Coffee Party were all astroturf or grassroots. I think it is a matter of whether...
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Barthian: A Pithy Definition
Image via Wikipedia From my comment on Near Emmaus My definition of Barthian: anyone who considers Karl Barth’s works uncritically at the worst, and at the least, see him as some marker of a...
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A warm Political Jesus welcome to John Piper – a lamewad.
On his blog, Desiring God, John Piper answered the “why” question regarding the tragedy in Japan. You can read it here. I take issue with pretty much every damn thing he says. So I am going to call him...
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The Christian Faith: A Few Thoughts on Horton’s Book
I’ve been working my way through Michael Horton’s new systematic theology, The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way. I thought I would share some of my initial thoughts (in...
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Monday Musing
I’m working my way through Michael Horton’s new systematic theology, The Christian Faith. In chapter thirteen, Horton examines the Fall. He makes an interesting argument that I don’t think I’ve ever...
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Monday Musing: Horton, Pinnock and the Influence of Theology
I’m working my way through Horton’s new Systematic theology book, A Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way. (For previous posts see here and here). In chapter six, God: The...
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How Picking Sports Teams is Like Studying Theology
Yesterday on Twitter, Rod tried to bait me by boasting about how awesome the US is because Boston won the Stanley Cup. It didn’t work. Mostly because I had been rooting for Boston and not Vancouver,...
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How I Have Changed Thus Far:An Introduction
I am always the last to know for these sort of things, but I will start a short series on how I have changed theologically. I do not know how many times I have mentioned “How I was once a Calvinist”...
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Yes, I do believe in miracles. But the “supernatural”? Different Story.
The category of supernatural has been used and abused in more charismatic Christian circles. This is because they are relying on an atheist category from the field of philosophy, or shall I say, a...
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Call for Papers: Joss Whedon And Theology
I may consider submitting a proposal for this request from TheoFantastique. “The works of Joss Whedon — from his hit television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, to his popular comic...
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Call for Papers Update: Joss Whedon and Theology
In December, I mentioned that the site Theofantastique had a CFP for papers in theological and religious studies with regards to the work of Joss Whedon. The deadline was supposed to be today. However,...
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Blog Posts Of Note:Week Of October 28th: Disney Buys Star Wars, Andrew...
From: io9: Darth Vader tells other Disney owned characters he’s their father! There were some good posts around this week, I really wish my favorite bloggers would post more…..Just Prayin’! Kevin...
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