Author Archive: theburnerblog

Tim Tebow On His Faith

ESPN sports critic Skip Bayless interviews Tim Tebow on the public expression of his faith–and if he sees any downsides because of it.

Even if you’re not a football fan, this is a pretty good interview.

Not least because the caustic Bayless offers a claim to being a Christian. It surprised The Burner.

Yes, that [...]

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Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey–What’s Going On Here? The State of the Evangelical Church with Richard Mouw and Leith Anderson

The Burner Blog was pleased to be able to record a conversation with National Association of Evangelicals president Leith Anderson and Fuller president Richard Mouw. The topic was a very Beldingian “What is Going on Here? (In the Evangelical Church)?”

The candid and wide-ranging conversation addresses the following topics:

The increasing emphasis on social justice among [...]

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No Longer Lesbian

Yesterday, The Burner shared with you excerpts of the letters from former provost Sherwood Lingenfelter and his daughter, Jennifer, regarding Jennifer’s sexual orientation published in the Fuller student publication, The Semi.

The Semi also published an article from current Fuller Doctor of Ministry student Maria Cardenas Baez about [...]

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A Fuller Family’s Story of Homosexuality and Faith

For awhile, a letter has been circulating among Fuller’s administrators and faculty. Because of the sensitive nature of the document, meetings were called to discuss as to what to do with it.

Now it’s been published in Fuller’s student-run publication, The Semi.

The content of the letter revolves around [...]

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Is Faith A Verb?

This article from Steven Argue showed up in The Burner’s inbox from Fuller Youth Institute’s E-Journal. You can sign up for FYI’s E-Journal here.

…At its very elemental level, faith as a verb is not a just Christian thing, it’s a human thing that people act upon.  Faith is the way [...]

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And Ed Said, “Let There Be Sex!” — Sexperiment by Ed and Lisa Young–Book Review

After all the brouhaha, hubbub and hullabaloo of Real Marriage, it’s nice to read a nice book.

What? No crazy quotes to pull out?

It’s telling that the only boldface sentence in the book is “Everyone needs to know the truth behind God’s design for sex.”

Pastor Ed Young and his wife, Lisa, haven’t exactly [...]

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A Revolutionary Understanding of Resurrection in Hebrews

This post was originally published on Wheaton College’s “For Christ and Kingdom” blog by Fuller alum Michael Kibbe.

Twice (in both cases by people qualified to say such things) in recent weeks I have heard David Moffitt’s recently published dissertation (Atonement and the Logic of the Resurrection in [...]

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