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 when he discusses Islam. Wieseltier makes no secret of his own commitment to a secularist outlook when he refers to “Obama’s creepy habit of addressing Muslims in religious terms.” What Mr. […]
Post-Rapture Theological Education? Just in Case
On May 21 I have scheduled a videotaping session on campus for a project we have labeled “The Seminary of the Future.”...
On Humility
Lisa Miller wrote a nice Newsweek column recently on the subject of humility—go here to read it.
She noted the frequency...
Failed Prophecy
As it became clear that May 21, 2011 was going to pass without the predicted “Rapture of the Faithful,” I began to think quite...
The Importance of “Is”
I have been reading John Calvin, and in the process my thoughts have turned
briefly to Bill Clinton. In...
Celebrating Newman
Pope Benedict is getting ready to visit England. He will officiate at a beatification ceremony—the step that precedes the elevation of the beatified person...
“You Never Know!”
By the time I was born, the Great Depression was only a memory. It was an extremely vivid memory, though, for the...
Death as the Defeated Enemy
In my last blog I discussed cremation. I’ll stick with death-related thoughts for another time around.
In a presentation I gave...
Preaching at Virginia Tech
The Chronicle of Higher Education came up with an interesting creative experiment in response to the Virginia Tech tragedy. The editors asked...
More on Belhar
Last spring I posted a piece criticizing the proposed adoption of the Belhar Confession as a confessional document by some Reformed and Presbyterian churches...
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