Names: they are a changin’

“…And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.” (Genesis 1:19, ESV) Over at First Things, read my latest musings on a culture that changes its names: This week, the Southern Baptist Convention announced it is launching yet another committee to examine changing its name. The goal is to better reflect the fact that, … Read more

Around the Sphere

~ Volume XVIII ~ Away from the web I have been for a while; Yet fear not my dear friends, cease not to smile; While words around here have been waning in style; I’ve returned to you now, with links by the pile! At his insightful Crunchy Con blog, Rod Dreher recounts a telling experience … Read more

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~ Volume XVII ~ Are you swimming in a sea of objectivity? That might not be such a good thing when it comes to scholarship. Charles Halton, who is quite the scholar in his own right, contends that bias isn’t necessarily a bad thing: I want to be a biased scholar. Furthermore, I want to … Read more

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~ Volume XVI ~ It’s morning again in the blogosphere, as blogging has now resumed at Le Sabot Post-Moderne! Discoshaman has hit the ground running, with ruminatinos on the viability of multiculturalism, and rumblings of a new sub-blog focusing on War on Terror news. Terry Mattingly writes about the upcoming Johnny Cash biopic and notes … Read more

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Off we go… New to blogging, but certainly no stranger to sound thought and practice, is my good friend Tom Hicks. Tom is a Ph.D. student at SBTS whom I’ve told repeatedly that he should be blogging. It seems he’s finally listened. His blog, Foedus Gratiae, aptly begins with a stirring post on joy. I’ll … Read more

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And around the blogosphere we go… The blogosphere needs more savvy theologians blogging, and blogging they are. If the prolific Albert Mohler and the all-too-infrequent Russell Moore aren’t good enough for you, intelligent design expert William Dembski has joined the ranks of the pajamahadeen with his blog, Uncommon Descent. New Testament scholar Scot McKnight is … Read more

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Just a few things I’m looking at in the blogosphere and elsewhere: Colby Willen takes on church marketing strategies, observing a local church’s tagline (“Big Enough to Serve You, Small Enough to Care”) that matches at least four other business slogans found on the web. He writes: Okay, even if you haven’t thought through what … Read more