Theology

This morning I preached in Miller Chapel. I will write more about it later, but I wanted to let those of you who wanted to hear it have that chance. I have a DVD of the service that turned out really well. Right now I’m just trying to figure out how to get it online. [...]

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This past summer, Sarah and I listened to Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” fantasy trilogy on CDs. It was probably the best book-on-CD I’ve ever listened to partly because it had a full cast acting out all the parts, but mostly because Pullman’s imagination is just amazing. Pullman’s first book in the trilogy, The Golden [...]

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World-renowned theologian, T.F. Torrance, father of current Princeton Theological Seminary president Iain Torrance, has died today, December 2, 2007. Princeton Theological Seminary professor George Hunsinger has written a eulogy here. [More info here]
The Seminary’s official announcement is below:
Thomas Forsyth Torrance, the Reformed theologian and recipient of the Templeton Prize in 1978, died in Edinburgh in [...]

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Question 8: What is salvation?
This is the last question in the “What is…” Series - if you’d like to explore any of the other questions and responses, please check them below.
Past “What is…” Posts:
Question 1: What is the gospel? | Response
Question 2: What is truth? | Response
Question 3: What is evangelism? | Response
Question 4: What [...]

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Question 7: What is sin?
It’s been awhile since I first posted the “What is sin” question - but I still want to finish off this blog series. I think my main beef with sin is that so often it is thought to mean only personal, individual “bad things” that people do. Sin is so much [...]

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In just a few days, classes at Princeton Seminary will start up again, and so I’m trying to enjoy the last few days of freedom until it all begins. I’ve been doing some webdesign, but also doing something else equally important: fixing up all my archives. When I deleted the old Typepad blog, I lost [...]

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So I preached yesterday - and I think it went pretty well for not having preached in a long time. I went back and forth between a more formal manuscript style of preaching, and a very informal conversational style. I want to be able to do the conversational style of preaching well - so I’m [...]

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Roger Olson’s Questions to All Your Answers is an argument for what he dubs “reflective Christianity” in place of “folk Christianity.” He writes, “Folk Christianity consists of a common stock of cute or comforting sayings and sweet aphorisms worked into and out of songs, poems and devotional books”. Olson, a professor of theology at Truett [...]

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Some of you will recall my struggles with centering prayer a few weeks ago. I haven’t tried since, but perhaps I will try and find a regular routine of getting a few minutes in every day as classes start up in a few weeks.
However, on the last day of my summer Clinical Pastoral Education at [...]

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