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Kevin WhiteUncategorized
This week, in anticipation of Christmas, I plan to do some “bonus” Reading the Hymns posts. How else can I put a dent in my list of favorite Christmas hymns?
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Conor Friedersdorf chimes in on Sessions' post: What I like about the attitude that Sessions suggests – persuading parents rather than condescending to them – is that respectful efforts at persuasion
Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice
David Sessions, on my review of The Next Christians: I’m not going to endorse Lyons’ theology without having read his books, but I balk at this tendency to over-
Andrew WalkerEvangelicalism
The land we inhabit is becoming more unfamiliar by the day. We may be witnessing the dawn of cultural exile. And quoting the Bible, I fear, won’t preserve our institutions or, for that matter, our culture. The Christian worldview has […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Trevin Wax’s readings of N.T. Wright is how I first came across his work, and his recent post comparing the early Wright and the later Wright on heaven serves as an excellent example of why he’s one of the brightest lights […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Timothy Beal surveys a number of different treatments of evangelicalism and finds that the closer you look, the more complex it gets: Yet as soon as evangelicalism becomes a subject,
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
This thing is for real, people. FOR REAL. Thanks for all your kind support. It is finally coming together.
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, has an excellent article up at The American Spectator on the Religious Establishment's increasingly pacifist ethic. This issue
Matthew Lee AndersonHistory/Church History
Along with Fred Sanders' Deep Things of God, the prolific Peter Leithart's Defending Constantine is in the running for the most important book of 2010. There are
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
I made my Gospel Coalition debut this morning with my review of Gabe Lyons’ enormously popular The Next Christians. Attentive readers will note that I strike a similar note to previous writings. But one thing didn’t come through in my […]
Kevin WhiteAnthropologyPhilosophyembodimentLiberal ArtsTheology and PracticeHistory/Church History
One of the theological areas most likely to raise questions about the relationship between historical Christian teaching and Greek (especially Platonic) thought is that of human nature. Especially with regard
Kevin White
This hymn is a new favorite of mine. It’s by William Cowper (1731-1800), and first appeared in the Olney Hymns collection, which he co-published with John Newton. Fred Sanders recently highlighted Cowper and the Olney collection. He introduces them so […]