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Kevin White

Kevin WhiteEmerging Adulthood/AdolescenceSociety

One Book for College: A Thumping Good Novel

My reading suggestion follows Cate’s example in fleeing from a specific recommendation.  And she gives very good advice. The assigned books are one of the big reasons you’re

Kevin WhiteEvangelicalism

Variety of the Young Reformed - A Reply to D.G. Hart

D.G. Hart has given some feedback and pushback to Matt’s and my posts on Voluntarity and the Young Reformed.  Dr. Hart is not one to back away from the rough and tumble of electronic controversy, so I am glad to […]

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Francis Chan on True Arrogance

Some stirring and convicting words from a former pastor of mine, in a Christianity Today interview: Here's what I had to repent of: I had felt the need

Kevin WhiteChurch

Voluntarity, Variety, and the Young Reformed

I want to offer something between an addendum and a counterpoint to Matt's excellent guest post at Ben Simpson's blog. He rightly describes how, in late

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Why You Go After Sloppy Thinking and Conspiracy Theories

One popular idea last week, after the release of Obama’s “long form” birth certificate, was that it would make no difference. The convinced are beyond evidence, the idea goes,

Kevin WhiteAnthropologyHistory/Church History

Dating Easter

Last Sunday was Easter. This year was a special year, in that the Eastern and Western churches celebrated it on the same date. Easter is a variable-date feast for

Kevin WhiteTheology and PracticeHistory/Church History

Samuel Rutherford on Remembering Christ's Death

Well-beloved in the lord—You are not unacquainted with the day of our Communion. I entreat, therefore, the aid of your prayers for that great work, which is one

Kevin WhiteChurchHistory/Church History

Why Church History? – The Cloud of Witnesses and the Body of Christ

As you may know, I am trying to make a career out of church history and historical theology. It is a field not without honor, though it is often overshadowed

Kevin White

Credit and Discredit

Something has been nagging at the back of my mind since the Bell-ruption that flared up a month ago. And no, it doesn’t really have much to do with Bell, his fans, or his opponents. Rather, it is about an […]

Kevin WhiteEvangelicalismTheology and PracticeEpistemology

Knowledge Spackle

So, we had a hole in the wall. I don’t mean the tiny urban apartment we shared in the first year of marriage, but a literal gap in the

Kevin WhiteReading the Hymns

Reading the Hymns: The Gospel Brings Tidings

“The Gospel Brings Tidings,” by William Gadsby (1773–1844), was one of my favorite hymns during the Berkeley years. It is, I admit, obscure. It’s not on Cyberhymnal or

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Understand Your Neighbor

Today Kevin DeYoung shares some key points from Gary Dorrien's The Making of American Liberal Theology. DeYoung offers not a critique but a description, reminding us that theological