Over several years in youth ministry, I’ve realized that students continually see me in a different way. I started as the Christian Jack Black; loaded with energy, donuts and an assortment of shenanigans. Then I was seen as the moral, advice-giving big brother to many of my students. Now I’ve given up [...]
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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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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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In this post I want to explore one of the areas that Henry Cloud dives into in his book, Changes that Heal, which I’m going to call seeing both the good and the bad. I find this subject to be invaluable.
Before we dive into it, I want to share a story about [...]
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There’s been a buzz the last few months about the future of theological education. From a symposium of blog posts hosted by Patheos to public conversations hosted by Northern Seminary and 3DM to Fuller’s own Seminary of the Future project, a variety of voices [...]
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I feel pretty comfortable talking about all things related to teenagers, but not so much with children. I have a 4 and 1 year-old girls who make me feel so inadequate as a father. They don’t mean to, they just do.
Without putting too much thought into the negative side, my wife [...]
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From Richard Beck’s blog Experimental Theology:
In James Cone’s recent book The Cross and the Lynching Tree he makes the argument that the cross and the lynching tree need to form a dialectic. If the two are separated the cross becomes innocuous and meaningless. As Cone writes:
Unfortunately, during the course of [...]
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