Monthly Archives: January 2006

I thought Garret’s post would make me crack a rib, but this actually tops it. Notice anything wrong with this picture? Hat tip: BHT

Below I spoke of the lack of precision in rejecting alleged doctrinal error, and how personal loyalty is being used as a substitute for it in many cases. The problem, I suggested, was an unwillingness to suggest new creedal documents … Continue reading →

The definition of seduction Unbelievable.

One of the results of the Arian controversies and other (anti-)Trinitarian uprisings in the early church were creeds and formulations that specifically expressed in positive content what was to be believed about God and Jesus. The Nicene Creed and the … Continue reading →

I thought this link I picked up from Al Moehler was interesting enought to share to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet: Is God Dead in Europe? This would be more reason to hope for Jenkin’s scenario since the South, … Continue reading →

Garrett has discovered that the The Center for Evangelical, Reformed and Presbyterian studies in North Carolina has a twenty-five year projection of the institutional arrangements that we might see in North American conservative Presbyterianism.

Just shoot me now. I knew this would be bad, but I had no idea how how bad. I consider the impulse to blog my reactions number by number to be a temptation from the evil one.

I had a discussion with a couple about the TV show 24 (I’ve only watched the first season). They liked it but the husband, a Christian trial lawyer, said that it always saddened him because of what it seemed to … Continue reading →

With the recent flurry of blogging on Wright’s relationship to “the Emergent Church,” (and by implication to post-modernism) I thought this review of Wright’s book on Scripture was helpful. I would compare it to John Frame’s review of Generous Orthoodoxy … Continue reading →

Actually, almost everything at The Boar’s Head Tavern is worthwhile, but a couple of things inspire quick links: Michael Spencer links Can’t we be civil, damn it?! I’m mentioned in this. Makes some constructive comments in line with observations at … Continue reading →