Warning: VERY long post.
What keeps me fixated on the TV series LOST? I know a lot of people gave up on the show after the second season. (Although ratings did drop, it still wins its time slot for the most important demographic and is the most DVR-ed show on TV.) The daytime-drama love triangle fixation [...]

Since I poked some fun last week at the announcement of an ABC Nightline-sponsored debate on the existence of God, I feel somewhat obligated to link to the actual debate, now that ABC News has put it up online. The debate was between child actor Kirk Cameron and evangelist Ray Comfort on the one side [...]

It’s Van Til spinning madly in his grave.

“I think if you let the match burn right down to your fingertips you get a better flame.” “Maybe your tobacco is too dry. Try adding some beer!” “Have you thought of giving up pipe smoking? Maybe you’d be more successful at something simpler, like nuclear physics.”
Our advice flowed as freely as Yuengling from a [...]

After any exam period, I usually like to take what I call a blow-off night, a night totally free from any seminary-related activities or studies. Even though I only had one midterm exam this semester, I decided why waste the tradition? So tonight my daughter Hannah and I finally went to see Amazing Grace.
A comedy [...]

I am making available my recordings of Mark Strom’s talk and the Q&A that followed at Westminster Theological Seminary this past Thursday evening. A gathering of WTS students, faculty, and alumni had the opportunity to hear the always provocative, never boring, Dr. Strom share a vision for a radically different kind of theological education. Along [...]

From time to time my friends and I engage in genial debate over what constitutes “Christian” art…or whether there can even be such a thing. At the extremes of views on what Christian art looks like would be, on one end, the kind of kitschy paintings and figurines one sees in a typical Christian book [...]

Sacred Journey has been peacefully slumbering for the past couple of weeks. I’m decompressing after final exams and a month of way-too-much drama at Westminster Theological Seminary. This is also the time of year when I like to re-evaluate the purpose and future direction of this blog, so I’m spending some time giving that some [...]

My occasional collection of random bits gleaned from my Sacred Journey across the Web:

If we’re content to think of the ancients as just a bunch of simple-minded goat herders, then we need to be prepared for stuff like this to knock us off our present-prejudiced pedestals. Amazing.
I know you haven’t even finished (or begun?) your [...]

…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 [...]