So is Glenn Lucke.
Excerpt: “Regarding DVC, I’m an apathist. I feel no outrage at the novelist for writing fiction about Mary Magdalene and the Church. I feel no urgency that Brown’s fiction might prevail against the Church. Call me crazy, call me complacent, but I tend to think the Church is slightly more durable [...]

My friend Xavier Picket, co-founder of Reformed Blacks of America, has written a provocative post worth reading and considering: The Reformed “Faith”: Misleading Terminology? He asks whether it might be needlessly offensive to refer to our Reformed distinctives as our “faith,” thereby appearing to elevate it to the status of a religion of its own, [...]

To our friends in the Philadelphia area:
As some of you already know, the Traphagens will be moving this summer. No, the bill collectors didn’t find us again. Rather some dear friends of ours have offered to rent us their former home. We’ll be much closer to the seminary and have room to have folks over, [...]

I was both surprised and pleased to find this morning that Rev. Rick Phillips of Refomation21 Blog fame had posted a comment in our discussion of Presbyterians & Presbyterians Together. For those of you tuning in late, Rev. Phillps launched a preemptive strike in what has become a mini-firestorm in the little world of Reformed [...]

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
“Even now, U.S. officials must watch Gadahfi to make sure he is truly reformed.”
Could this explain why some of the hate emails I get whenever I post about Peter Enns come from domains in Libya??
Thanks to “a friend” for the link.

My friend Mark Robinson has a creative and insightul post over on Reformed Blacks of America about how easily we can miss the forest for the trees (or in his metaphor, the birds on the branch) when bringing our ethereal systematic presuppositions about the meaning of Bible words such as “justification” to a particular text. [...]

By now it certainly must be common knowledge that the much awaited-ballyhooed-feared-loathed Da Vinci Code movie is the softest punching bag the critics have had since Ishtar.
But no reviewer, no matter how sharp his #2 Eberhard-Faber, could possibly outdo the iMonk as he goes all MST3K on the DVC! (Rated H for Hilarious Content)

Alastair in the UK has written an insightful post asserting that the most dangerous thing about phenomena such as The Da Vinci Code may not be their twisting of the facts.
Rather, he argues, they display a disturbing trend in our culture to popularize and cling to conspiracty theories. This observation clicked with me personally as [...]

…you just can’t trust those painters! Must be something in the pigments.