I have no idea how I got this idea, but here it is.
I searched Google images for each of the following categories:

emergent pastor
youth pastor
baptist pastor
presbyterian pastor
traditional pastor

I then saved the first picture that came up that was of an actual person. Can you guess which is which? No fair Googling!
A. B. C. [...]

My friend singer-songwriter Andy Osenga pointed me to What Would Jesus Do, an article from GQ magazine in 2002. The author spent seven days living in the Christian subculture–the “Ark” as he calls it; Christendome as I call it. For seven days he watched only Christian TV, shopped only in Christian Family Life stores, listened [...]

One of my favorite pieces of dialogue from Fiddler on the Roof occurs during the song “Tradition.” The village rabbi teaches the men that “there is a prayer for everything.” One of the men asks incredulously, “Rabbi, even for the Czar?”
“Yes,” replies the rabbi, “Lord, bless and keep the Czar….far away from us!”
My next favorite [...]

I was searching Google images tonight to see what came up for my last name. I found a site that actually had Traphagen translated into Chinese:

So if anyone reading this reads Chinese, can you tell me if that’s a phonetic interpretation. I’d suspect that it is. To truly “translate” my name, you’d have to know [...]

Former Westminster Theological Seminary Professor Tim Keller, now pastor of church-planting mecca Redeemer Presbyterian in NYC, is featured in a New York Times article. I can’t remember the last time I saw such a positive write-up of an evangelical in the secular press.
HT to Daniel Kirk.

As with my last two posts, I am once again going to tread into water slightly over my head, but that’s one of my purposes for this blog. Not for me to drown(!), but for me to have a place where I can throw something up against a wall, have my very smart readers go [...]

8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess [...]

With the exception of my grandparents, I have not often had death come very near to me. That changed this week as a beloved professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, someone with whom I had just begun to develop a friendship, announced that he had been diagnosed with a terminal, incurable form of cancer.
From the moment [...]

NOTE: This is a repost of this post. The original and its comments were lost in a crash of the site. Sorry about the lost comments!
Civil War Union general Charles Leopold Matthies comes back as WTS New Testament prof Dan McCartney

OR…these other possibilities

Orson Welles OR ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbon

NOTE: This is a repost of this post. I had some technical difficulties with the site and lost the original, along with its comments. Sorry!
DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING IS NOT MY IDEA. A reader of this blog who wishes to remain anonymous forced me to post these pictures. He said he wouldn’t be my friend anymore [...]