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Does Reformed Theology Discourage Personal Holiness?
Over my summer break I reread Francis Schaeffer’s refreshing introduction to the Christian faith: True Spirituality. As a brief aside, it’s to our own detriment...
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Why Write? To Enrich Your Own Faith
The first article in this series considered a recent conversation I had about why theological students won’t write—apart from their academically enforced indulgences. They offered...
Church Size: Six Theses
A friend once left a note on my desk, in jest, saying: “Get over your big church issues.” While my critics might have phrased it...
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Protestants and Popes: We Must Do Better
Late on Monday my wife and I were discussing the news that had broken on Monday morning: Pope Francis died. Naturally, you don’t need to search hard for eulogies and...
Doodle: Friedrich Nietzsche's Capitalist Manifesto
I’m no economist. Nor am I the son of economist. Neither are my father or I are socialists. I’ve read the Communist Manifesto but growing up in the 90s I’m...
Did Peter Believe Jesus Was God?
For better or worse, a few years back I signed up to Quora and on occasion their emails pique my interest; usually, however, I find myself chuckling at the strutting...
Being Convinced of God's Power Should Mean Confident Prayers
I recently published an article urging Christians to pray with an open Bible, “employing the Spirit-inspired words of God’s people and theology to breathe new life into our praises, petitions,...
C. H. Dodd and the Decline of Corporate Worship
In the course of my undergraduate studies I was introduced to the very refreshing New Testament scholar, C. H. Dodd. Since then I’ve collected and read most of his works....
'What's Best Next'? Three Reasons It Isn't This Book
According to Goodreads, I last finished a book in the November of 2019; since then I’ve been on an incredibly slow-burn with just six books, so my moribund profile says....
Doodle: Our Sin Doesn't Always Make Sense
Earlier this week a friend published an interesting article, titled ‘Deconstruct Your Temptations’. In his words, “each of us are locked in [an] internal moral arms race” between our temptations...
Time Is Finite, But So Are You
I think it was Esther Meeks who said that we don’t use time as much as time does something to us. In our age of near-frenetic productivity and the regrettable...
