Before moving to Washington D.C., I thought of it vaguely as a city in the “Northeast.” Having spent most of my life in the South and Mid-West, it was in my mind loosely associated with...
Read moreI’m too busy these days to do much extra reading. My ministry, my studies, and preparations for the baby are taking just about everything I have to offer! But one thing I find myself doing...
Read moreI’m grateful to be a part of Congregationalist church. Congregationalism is a Protestant denomination with a rich history in Great Britain and the United States. Much of Christianity in colonial New England was Congregationalist, and...
Read moreI read Dallimore’s shorter biography of Whitefield while in Chicago the last few days. I learned a lot from Whitefield’s courage, his work ethic, and his emphasis in his preaching on the importance of the...
Read moreI’ve been listening to Churchill’s speeches after reading Johnson’s biography. Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat is my favorite. It was delivered on May 13, 1940, soon after Churchill became Prime Minister and when Hitler was...
Read moreDuring some time off this week I read Paul Johnson’s Churchill (Viking, 2009). Its a brief and enjoyable biography, covering in less than 200 pages a very full life of 90 years, from early military...
Read more[continued from this post] 11) reformation and fragmentation Reforming Fundamentalism helped me understand the tendency that renewal or reform movements have toward fragmentation and internal conflict. Its much easier to unite in opposition to the...
Read more8) premillennialism and identity It was interesting to see how premillennialism as well as inerrancy was an identity issue in the early fundamentalist-evangelical movement. Early FTS, for example, was thoroughly pre-millennial: it was in their...
Read more[continued from this post] 7) Still battling modernism From its inception, evangelicalism has been trying to figure out how to shed the bad of fundamentalism without losing the good. How to lose the chaff without...
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