Hundreds of you loyal Sacred Journey readers (well, OK, just Justin, really) have asked, “Sage, how can I be an even more loyal Sacred Journey reader? I live in fear that while I stop to sleep or eat or use the toilet I might miss one of your posts. Would you please call my cell [...]

My latest collection of randomness gleaned while wandering down the aisles of the Internet:

This would only be a problem if they were shipping your burger from New Hampshire as well. Read the whole article, and see if you agree with me that what sounds crazy at first turns out to be a very smart idea.
Hagiography? [...]

Newly arrived:
Author: K. Scott Oliphint
Publisher: P&R
ISBN: 0875526454
Paperback, 363 pages
This is a wonderful book. If given the attention it deserves, Reasons for Faith should change the discussion in matters relating revelation to reason from now on. There is nothing quite like it in the literature. Moving from Augustine to Plantinga, Professor Oliphint interacts with many of [...]

It is going to be way too cloudy here in the east to watch today’s rare transit of the sun by Mercury (and didn’t my kindergarten teacher tell me something about not staring at the sun anyway?), but you can get the best front row seat via streaming media at the Exploratorium web site. The [...]

Drew Parlee, a recent Westminster Theological Seminary graduate whi is now teaching seminary in Serbia has seven students who cannot afford Greek New Testaments of their own. If you have a spare you are no longer using and can get it to me soon, I will make sure it gets to his students.
Thanks!

Rev. Richard “Rick” Phillips has posted his reactions to the recording of Scot McKnight’s address to last week’s Forum on the Emerging Church held by Westminster Theological Seminary’s Student Association. He walks through the talk point-by-point offering his comments along the way. I was pleased to see Rev. Phillips take McKnight’s points seriously. He sees [...]

…if it were transporting me out of Evangelical “culture.” The Apocalypse is now a “game,” kids.
The most insightful part of this review is where the writer stumbles upon the fact that the whole Left Behind concept has more in common with paganism than Christianity:
…as I clicked away on my spirit warriors, and the glowing balls [...]

Joel Garver, after having “Gone Himself” once again a month or so ago, threatens to resurface. The blogosphere holds its collective breath, knowing this event is the only hope to knock the Haggard scandal off the top of the Technorati rankings anytime soon.
UPDATE: And this is why he’s always worth the wait.
By the way, Joel, [...]

Help a brother out…
Blake, a reader of this blog who currently attends an out-of-state college, is considering seminary for next year. He is looking at a couple of seminaries, one of which is Westminster. He sent me some questions which I will be happy to try to answer, but I thought it would be more [...]

I know that around my seminary Barth is nearly a four-letter word, but this quote I ran across tonight deserves to be heard:
“…I now believe that the church is not here to speak to the world. We preachers do not have as our task to provide the world with some reason for living or some [...]