For reasons that I cannot discuss here, this blog may be “going Garver” for a while.
If indeed this is my last post for a while, then goodbye. If you use a feed reader, keep me on it as I will probably be back eventually.

In the past few years I’ve had to reshape the definitions of some theological terms that I thought I already “had down.” One of those polysyllabic words that has shifted semantically for me is eschatology. In the segment of Christianity in which I grew up, eschatology (literally: “the study of last or final things”) had [...]

Scot McKnight (blog) has managed to place himself in a unique position. He is an orthodox theologian (if I may be so “generously orthodox” to include an Arminian who upholds the Trinity, full divinity of Christ, necessity of a substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection of Christ, the Word-of-God authority of Scripture, etc., as “orthodox”) who [...]

…at WTS, so the following sounds real good about now:

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It is now going on two weeks since the Emerging Church Forum sponsored by the Student Association of Westminster Theological Seminary. One of our hopes in putting on that conference was to stimulate thinking and dialog not only between Reformed seminarians and emerging church folk but also within each of those two circles. It was [...]

A PhD is not something in this blogger’s future. If and when Westminster grants me my M.Div., I shall have the diploma woven into a security blanket and will carry it around with me to my grave. It shall truly, I’m sure, be my “terminal degree.”
However, since I know that most of my readers are [...]

See this news story. In the ancient church, certain men took on status as “holy men, ” and if someone was not up to attaining that status (through martyrdom or asceticism), then they could at least up their spiritual status by getting as close to the holy man as possible. Looks like not much has [...]

The second Sunday of November is designated by many churches as the “International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Persecuted Church.” Tonight I will be attending a prayer meeting for our persecuted brothers and sisters across the globe at Maple Glen Church near our home. More information on the persecuted church can be found [...]

The Internet Monk attempts to explain and defend the label “TR”, and in a related post, Glenn Lucke of Common Grounds Online explains why “epistemologcial humility” is not only not a slippery slope (there’s that term again!) to theological liberalism, but rather ought to be a foundational attitude for those who stand within Reformed orthodoxy [...]

The other day Andy did something you are not supposed to do when you are a “successful Christian musician.” He publicly confessed struggling with serious doubt in his faith walk. The sudden upsurge in comment activity this generated on his blog seems to indicate that he is very much not alone, even among his audience [...]