Spelling Bees: the Larger Lessons?
Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old from Kansas, won the National Spelling Bee the other evening by correctly spelling “Laodicean.” That’s a good biblical word that I would also have gotten right if I were in that spelling bee. It might seem oddly self-serving—even stupidly boastful—for me to say that, so I have to explain that I […]
Getting “Reviewed”
Someone pointed out to me that a person posted a review on Amazon of my new book on Mormonism, giving it one star. I...
On Being “Creepy”
In a recent column published in the magazine The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier criticized President Obama for the kind of language the president uses...
Warrior Monks?
I just finished a week of co-teaching a course for nine military chaplains. It was an “intensive”–which means all day, every day,...
The Difficulty of Self-Knowledge
Here is a passage that I often return to, from the inaugural address of one of my presidential predecessors, Edward John Carnell:
Whoever...
Animal Rights
There is a campaign underway in Vienna, Austria to declare Hiasl, a 26-year-old male chimpanzee, a “person,” with various accompanying legal rights....
Multifaceted Witnessing
In my recent blog posting on the “golf bag” image of atonement theory, I thought I was clearly defending the essential nature of substitution....
Of Chocolates and Sermons
We’ve been having conversations recently with laypeople—folks who support theological education—about how Fuller Seminary can respond effectively to the needs...
Staying Faithful to Genesis 1
I have been reading materials from some of the more conservative Reformed groups about creation and evolution. In one denomination, a group...
False Teachers and False Teachings
I once heard an evangelical leader speak out against a certain group with whom we evangelicals have significant disagreements. I happened to...
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