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October 2012

October 03, 2012

Some Poetry with Your Haircut, Sir?

I like vintage barber shops. Ever since I was a boy, they have been part...

October 01, 2012

Something of My Very Own

Caution: This post contains spoilers. How far would you go to protect those...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

The Best Bible Institute in Los Angeles

I teach classes at the best Bible Institute in Los Angeles. I also work at...

September 12, 2012

Bayard: How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

Pierre Bayard's 2007 book How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read is a real...

September 09, 2012

McClymond & McDermott: The Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford and New...

September 07, 2012

Theology for the Great City: Los Angeles Theology Conference

I've lived in California for more than fifteen years now, working as a professional theologian...

August 2012

August 22, 2012

Rally and Radiate

Here's a diagram (click through it to view a larger version) that the founders of...

August 21, 2012

Thousands of Pages of New Trinitarian Theology

There are always books about the Trinity coming out, because it's a perennially important doctrine....

August 16, 2012

Wesley & Puritan Spirituality

Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for Seedbed, the online resource center of...

August 15, 2012

Our Triune God & The Pastor: Adoption Conference

Astute theological observers should have noticed by now that there are two important things happening...

August 14, 2012

Sermon: The Trinity as Surprise Ending

Last weekend I guest preached at Del Rey Church, on the Trinity. The sermon is...

August 14, 2012

God the Father’s Sons and Offspring

I've been reading about the doctrine...

August 10, 2012

“I Believe in the Maker of Moderate-Sized Dry Goods”

Katherine Sonderegger has a fine chapter on the doctrine of creation in the book Mapping...

August 08, 2012

Faith and Good Works, Christ and the Spirit

Justification is by grace alone through faith alone. It's a wonderful truth, established by Paul,...

August 07, 2012

O Tell Us, Poet, What You Do

A favorite Rilke poem: O tell us, poet, what you do. --I praise. Yes, but...

August 06, 2012

A.T. Pierson’s Biola Connections

I was asked recently about the relationship between A. T. Pierson (1837 -1911) and the early...

August 06, 2012

Remembering the Samwise’s of the World

As you certainly know, Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, recently died. Unfortunately,...

August 03, 2012

Jesus Loves Karl Barth

A witty colleague writes: I know "Jesus loves me, This I know," is the most...

August 02, 2012

STUDY at BIOLA (1941)

I don't have an image of it, but here is the nifty text from an...

August 02, 2012

A Statue You Can’t See. Also, Upside Down.

What good is a statue nobody can see? In a courtyard in Cambridge, England (just...

August 01, 2012

Unhelpful Advice from Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson is one of the acknowledged masters of English prose, a fixed star of...

August 01, 2012

Delighting in the Good (Triune) God

There's a nice little book on the Trinity coming out soon, and I highly recommend...

August 01, 2012

The Formative Reading of Scripture

The Journal of Spiritual Formation & Soul Care is a twice-yearly journal from Biola's Institute...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Loving God, and Saying So in the Bible

When you love God, it seems altogether natural to say so: to God ("I love...

July 30, 2012

“The Divine Grip:” Ralph Del Colle (1954-2012)

Theologian Ralph Del Colle has passed away this week from cancer. When an accomplished thinker...

July 28, 2012

Torrey Cambridge 2012

Every July, a group of students from Biola's Torrey Honors Institute goes to Cambridge, England,...

July 16, 2012

How to Discuss:
Have Faith, Have Hope, Have Love.

Wheatstone's summer conference just ended. We had a week of great seminars, workshops, cultural events,...

July 11, 2012

Becoming a Christian

Little of the growth in my life comes from learning something new. Instead, it comes...

July 02, 2012

The Need to Work

Another school year has come and gone and summer is now in full swing. In...

July 01, 2012

Summertime in England: It Ain’t Why (It Just Is)

Probably just because I'm spending the summertime in England, I've been listening to Van Morrison's...