Mark Driscoll, pastor of Seatle’s Mars Hill Church, has posted more details on the upcoming Resurgence conference. Speakers will include Tim Keller, Josh Harris, and many up-and-coming missional church leaders, including Westminster’s own Anthony Bradely. I had the honor of meeting and chatting with another of the presenters, Eric Mason, at Westminster Bookstore. Eric is [...]

This is way too late, but here are my very rough notes from Pete’s inauguration as full Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary last Wednesday.
I post these tonight in special honor to Pete as his father passed away this afternoon up in Syracuse.

I know last week I promised some new posts, but (”Yes, the Excuses Department is now open, how may we serve you?”)

The server that hosts foolishsage.com went down for the whole weekend
I am way too far behind on the exegetical work for my Old Testament History & Theology paper, work which will be [...]

Today’s post is a “guest blog” by Shareen Kelly, wife of Westminster Theological Seminary Old Testament professor Michael Kelly. It moved me deeply to consider one more way in which our theology of the eschatological victory of Christ is meant to be “breaking in” to our present time. Shareen wrote this as a letter to [...]

A very busy week with much blog-worthy…but little time to scratch this slab of clay. Today and tomorrow are consumed by Tremper Fest II - in order to offer the second half of the Old Testament History & Theology course with a shorthanded OT staff, WTS is flying in former Westminster prof and prolific writer [...]

Daniel Kirk (aka Sibboleth) called our attention today back to an intriguing post of his from a year ago. The thesis is that even though conservative evangelicalism clearly rejected Bultmann’s divorce of Scripture from any historical context other than the reader’s own, it forgot to lock the back door. Now Bultmann, says Daniel, rises from [...]

Friend, classmate, and Vos-maven Jason Kirklin now has a proud papa photo up of his sweet little Madelyn Machelle, born this past Sunday.
When Jason told me about how she just melts him when she looks into his eyes, I told him that I remember that happening with my two girls. Truth is, they’re grown up, [...]

First, a couple of congrats shoutouts are in order:

Classmate Jason Kirklin is now the very proud father of a baby girl! They used unusual spelling for her name, so I won’t attempt it until I see it in print.
Classmate and neighbor Mike Vendsel is currently featured in a special student profile on the WTS web [...]

Art Boulet, a fairly recent aquaintance who is quickly becoming a good friend, has a great post about the full meaning of shalom. As he says, it is so much more than the absence of conflict, and may be the best word of all for describing the full range of what the gospel is meant [...]

One of the joys for us as “mature” (PC for “old”) students at a place like Westminster is being around young people. Karyn and I have long felt drawn toward the college/grad school age group, and continue to have some of our deepest and most rewarding relationships with people in that stage of life.
Some of [...]