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 [...]

“But one of the glories of education is the opportunity to hear the truth come out of a human being with blood in the veins and air in the lungs, and not just off a printed page” (Douglas Wilson, The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 198).
When I first saw that quotation, the person who [...]

At a special colloquium entitled “Biblical Matters: Biblical Reflections on ‘Going Global’” held this morning, James W. Skillen and Carl F. Ellis, Jr., each delivered impassioned pleas that the Church of Jesus Christ needs to be aware of and speak into all of life. The meeting at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia was sponsored by [...]

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Cartoon by Tom Tomorrow from workingforchange.com

Anyone close to me over the past year can tell you that I have put the fanatical back into fan with my undying obsession with the music of Sufjan Stevens. Last month my daughter Hannah poured gasoline on that fire by announcing that she was gifting Karyn and me with tickets to see The Man [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The complete audio of a discussion titled “Behind the Da Vinci Code” between Richard Hays (Duke University) and Bart Ehrman (UNC Chapel Hill) is available here. (Note: Don’t right-click and save my link; go to the page and follow download instructions there.)
The title is important. This is not a discussion of The Da Vinci Code [...]

Columnist and culture watcher Dick Staub weighs in on what he views as the growing but not unexpected evangelical hysteria over the approaching Day of Doom: May 19 (AKA the release date of The Da Vinci Code movie).
Read his column here.
Of particular interest to me are his comments about the encouragement of a continued “us [...]

With the premier of the movie version of The Da Vinci Code less than a month away, my seminary has unveiled a new web site: thetruthaboutdavinci.com. The purpose of the site is to provide a point-by-point refutation of many things in the book and (presumably) the movie that are presented as historical “fact” about [...]