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October 2011

October 20, 2011

Controversy over Calvinism brewing in the SBC

According to a report published by the Associate Baptist Press dated October 19, "SBC leader...

October 18, 2011

Announcement of Interview re: Against Calvinism

MinistryDirect.com has invited me to sit down for an interview via Skype for my new...

October 18, 2011

Romans 9

Several Calvinists who have posted comments here have suggested or outrightly claimed that Arminians have...

October 17, 2011

A report on a conversation with a Calvinist

A few people who "visit" here occasionally have accused me of being unwilling to engage...

October 14, 2011

Narrative theology: following up on my review of Smith’s book about biblicism

In The Bible Made Impossible Christian Smith does touch on narrative theology, but I think...

October 12, 2011

What makes someone “evangelical?”

Yesterday I listened to two fine presentations by a notable and influential evangelical scholar. They...

October 09, 2011

Here we go again…the words “evangelical” and “cult” being misused in the media

According to SOME news reports (I always have to say that because news reports don't...

October 07, 2011

Some thoughts about conversations/debates between Calvinists and Arminians

Now that my book Against Calvinism is published I'm receiving invitations to debate Calvinists. What...

October 05, 2011

Final installment of the review of Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible

Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible, Chapter 7 “Rethinking Human Knowledge, Authority, and Understanding” and...

October 03, 2011

Another installment of my review of Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible

Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible, Chapter 6: “Accepting Complexity and Ambiguity” There is no...

October 02, 2011

A word about reading one’s own book…and almost crying!

I know without any doubt that some critic of Against Calvinism is going to gleefully...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Third installment of review of Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible

Now I turn to Chapters 5 and 6--both great chapters with which I mostly agree. ...

September 29, 2011

Brief interlude (in discussion of The Bible Made Impossible): more on states’ illegal immigration laws

Last May I stirred up a huge controversy here by condemning newly minted state laws...

September 28, 2011

Part 2 of the Review of Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible

Now I turn to Chapters 3 and 4 of The Bible Made Impossible. Chapter 3...

September 27, 2011

Addendum to my first review of Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible

Obviously my posts are not perfectly perspicuous--sometimes even to me (when I go back and...

September 25, 2011

First installment of review of Smith, The Bible Made Impossible

Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible, Chapters 1 & 2 It is necessary to understand...

September 23, 2011

Finally arrived–Against Calvinism!

I hold in my grubby little hands the first ever copy of Against Calvinism (outside...

September 22, 2011

Preview of my discussion of The Bible Made Impossible

Like some of you I'm very much looking forward to our conversations here about Christian...

September 21, 2011

Lesslie Newbigin–a guide for the perplexed

I'm often asked for recommendations of good theologians to read. Usually the askers are not...

September 19, 2011

A final comment on Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism

Quick review: Zondervan has just published an excellent new book entitled Four Views on the...

September 17, 2011

An invitation to read and discuss (here) an important new book

In about a week I plan to begin discussing here The Bible Made Impossible by...

September 16, 2011

Returning briefly to the subject of America as a family

A couple weeks ago I posted here a guest column I wrote for the local...

September 14, 2011

Is hell part of the gospel? (Read all of this or don’t read any of it!)

In the Al Mohler article I previously discussed in The Southern Seminary Magazine Mohler argues...

September 12, 2011

Al Mohler stirs the Rob Bell pot some more

The current issue of Southern Seminary Magazine (Summer, 2011) contains an article by SBTS president...

September 10, 2011

Going where angels fear to tread: Christianity and Freemasonry

One of my biggest culture shocks in moving to the South has been seeing all...

September 09, 2011

And now a curmudgeonly comment on church sign “ministry”

A good friend who is on staff of a church recently uttered a phrase I...

September 09, 2011

Should Christians sing hymns/songs they don’t agree with?

Recently I was in a worship service where we were asked to sing the hymn...

September 08, 2011

Article on “centered” versus “bounded” sets

Someone asked me for my source regarding the difference between "centered sets" and "bounded sets." ...

September 08, 2011

What I mean when I say I am “Against Calvinism”

I know I've talked about this before here, but many of my subscribers and readers...

September 06, 2011

Why “evangelical” is a label I won’t surrender

Several commenters here have asked why I hold on to the label "evangelical." Why not...