With the release of Brett McCracken’s Hipster Christianity, there has been a circle of buzz surrounding topic. There is a clever cliche filled survey you can take to rate your hipster-ness. Christianity Today had Brett McCracken write their cover story for their September issue of the magazine {HT here}. I haven’t read the book, but [...]

One of the saddening things experienced listening to N.T. Wright lecture at Wheaton College was his poor response to the critique of not working more with the Christian tradition and other disciplines/scholars besides a narrow set of New Testament scholars. While he seemed amiable towards the other speakers at the conference (not to mention that [...]

When a thought captures my attention, I tend to find lots of related ideas throughout the daily activities & thoughts of my life. Here is my latest example. Recently Don Miller posted about relationship rather than right belief/theology being what “it” [Christianity] is all about. My previous post made reference to this post, and I [...]

Here is some food for thought: It is noteworthy that modern Platonists, almost without exception, are ignorant of mathematics, in spite of the immense importance that Plato attached to arithmetic and geometry, and the immense influence that they had on his philosophy. This is an example of the evils of specialization: a man must not [...]

I came across a great presentation by Tim Keller recently. I would highly recommend checking it out. He spoke at the Gospel Coalition national conference. They have recorded all the presentations and have them all available for free on their site. I would highly recommend checking some of them out. Tim Keller spoke on “The [...]

One question which has been circling in my head lately is the possibility of a universal salvation, in the sense that Christ really did die for everyone and through that every has been/will be justified before God now and also on that future judgment. What has spurred this conversation with myself is reading Romans 5. [...]

This is what happens when I go to the library for two books.

Unless you have lived your life completely in isolation of any Western cultural influence, you have been confronted with the man Paul, also previously known as Saul of Tarsus. {What follows is a short account of what Paul means to me. Your mileage will vary, this is simply my story. Please add to the conversation [...]

There are many great reasons to be studying Paul, especially his letter to the Romans.

This past week I had the opportunity to go to Kansas City and listen to & talk with Pauline scholars and Emergent Church writers and/or church-planters for a couple of days. It was a very nice experience as a whole. There are a few themes and discussions which I would like to share which were [...]