Albert Mohler recently wrote a largely anecdotal reflection on the local circumstances of power outages in Louisville. It was getting a little boring and then he chose to take an interesting if ridiculous turn. He concludes his blog post: “The Lord, as the Bible says, causes it to rain on both the just and the unjust.  Churches and taverns are both dark.  Darkness fell on those doing good and those doing evil.  The difference may not be evident again until the lights come back on.” Now I never took the GRE, but I studied quite a bit for it and Mohler’s comment could eas... [read more]

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Think about this: Under ‘things in the broadest possible sense’ include such radically different items as not only ‘cabbages and kings’, but numbers and duties. possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve success in philosophy would be, to use a contemporary turn of phrase, to ‘know one’s way around’ with respect to all these things, not in that unreflective way in which the centipede of the story knew its way around before it faced the question, ‘how do I walk?, but in that reflective way which means that no in... [read more]

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As Calvinism becomes more mainstream in evangelicalism, inevitably it will be communicated by some rather interesting  bizzarre characters (for anecdotal evidence of Calvinism’s mainstream status, see this article in CT by Collin Hansen, or a fuller account by the same author, see Young, Restless, Reformed). A little scared? Well, you’re not alone. Hansen shares the story of one young woman who understands how you feel: “Nothing in her evangelical upbringing prepared Laura Watkins for John Piper. ‘I was used to a very conversational preaching style,’ said Wa... [read more]

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Two professors at a math conference stand in front of a blackboard, on which is written the sentence “Only an idiot would believe a sentence like this!” The first professor asks the second, “Do you believe that?” The second answers, “Of course not! Only an idiot would believe a sentence like this!” Or how about this one…. There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book Or… 1. No cat has eight tails. 2. A cat has one more tail than no cat. ∴ A cat has nine tails.

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If you are a Christian you most likely hold a belief that goes something like this: during his crucifixion, Jesus Christ was forsaken by God the Father who, due to his intoleration of sin, “turned his back” on Christ as Christ took on himself the sin of the world by penal substitution. The textual support offered for this doctrine is Christ’s quotation of Psalm 22:1 - ”My God, my God why have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46; Mk 15:34). Usually this verse is considered to be the showstopper for the question of whether Christ was forsaken by his Father. Despite th... [read more]

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I recently stumbled across this English audio lecture by Karl Barth on Evangelical theology. It’s moving. It’s inspiring. It’s profound. It’s convicting. It’s comforting. It’s powerful. Enjoy!

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We live in a post-Holocaust world. One of the consequences of this is that many people think that anything that even smells like anti-Semitism must in fact be anti-Semitism. We are right to express serious concern over the seeds of Jewish hatred because we have seen the devastation to which it can lead and have seen how deep that hatred can go. However, as valid as this concern may be, many have let it shape their reading of pre-Holocaust history and claim to see anti-Semitism where it doesn’t truly exist. This is true in the case of much of the historical scholarship that seeks toÂ... [read more]

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