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April 2013

April 11, 2013

Towards The Eternal City: St. Augustine’s Theology of History

It is quite common to hear from various Christian circles on how we must influence...

April 08, 2013

A History of the Trinity (Holmes pt. 1)

We had a blast talking through Tom McCall's Forsaken a few months ago and thought we'd...

April 05, 2013

Credo: Trinity Issue

Everybody knows about the magazine called Credo, right? It's a newish (started 2011) quarterly that...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Stop Using the F-Word

As we careen at breakneck speed towards the legalization of gay marriage, as people yell...

March 27, 2013

In the Garden Alone

My church hosted a great event last week, an Easter walk with a multi-station dramatic...

March 22, 2013

Change: Looking Back and Looking Forward

I am waxing a bit nostalgic at the moment. Fifteen years have gone by since...

March 20, 2013

What Rob Bells Talks About When He Talks About God

Rob Bell's new book just came out. In its title, borrowed from one of Raymond...

March 19, 2013

Celebrating in the Desert

One thing I learned late, growing up in my evangelical Christian community, was the rhythm...

March 18, 2013

Theological Atomic Physicists and their Simplifiers

This is a cartoon that was circulated in grad school. I've seen it published a...

March 16, 2013

St. Patrick Comics & Stories!

The cartoon adventures of St. Patrick, from a 1947 comic book called Treasure Chest of...

March 15, 2013

Quoth Francis & Francis: Speak Up!

In his first mass as Roman pontiff, Pope Francis delivered a short sermon in the...

March 04, 2013

Getting Back to the (Dating) Basics

I spend most of my time working with undergraduate students, directing them academically through the...

March 01, 2013

Razumikhin Haddock

The character Razumikhin in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the most personable figures...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Hebrews: The Mind-blowing Finale

The book of Hebrews is the grand finale of the first semester in the Torrey...

February 20, 2013

George Steiner Learns to Read Greek

Just a few pages into George Steiner's 1999 autobiographical work Errata: An Examined Life, he...

February 19, 2013

Chris Mitchell Interview: “To Relate our Learning of the Faith to our Learning of the World”

Biola's Torrey Honors Institute has just announced the hiring of Dr. Chris Mitchell, who will...

February 18, 2013

Only the Lonely

I happened to be re-reading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment the same weekend that we hosted...

February 15, 2013

Pictographic Catechism from the Andes

It's not exactly a comic book, but there is an old catechism that certainly makes...

February 06, 2013

Evangelism with Dempfey and Theo

This is a gospel tract I designed, an evangelism tool. Well, it's not so much...

February 04, 2013

What Stephen Saw, We Hear

At the very beginning of the Christian church, before it was ever called "Christian" or...

February 03, 2013

Cats Superbowl Party

Downstairs: A well-dressed reveler arrives, as previous guests doff exo-togs at a handy hat rack....

February 02, 2013

Three Vintage Posts on Hebrews

As I launch into a semester of teaching Hebrews and a year of hearing it...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Hebrews Out Loud

The book of Hebrews seems to have been written for the ear. Or, if that...

January 21, 2013

“Behold Your God!” LABTS Men’s Conference Saturday

This Saturday there's a great conference for men in Los Angeles. It's organized by the...

January 21, 2013

LATC 2014: Advancing Trinitarian Theology

The first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference was a big success, and now we are...

January 17, 2013

Welcome to the Los Angeles Theology Conference

Here is the welcome note published in the conference program for today's theology conference: Welcome...

January 16, 2013

Form: How a Marriage is Like a Poem (Wendell Berry)

In his 1982 essay "Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms," Wendell Berry used...

January 14, 2013

Justification by Faith in Matthew (with an Assist from Hilary)

I recently described how I read the Gospel of Matthew looking for an understanding of...

January 11, 2013

Salvation in Matthew (with an Assist from Paul)

The Gospel of Matthew is a book about salvation. The author sets up the topic...

January 10, 2013

Books Books Books at LATC Next Week

Next Thursday and Friday, Biola University will host the first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference. There's...