Uncategorized Half the Church: A review of Tara Beth Leach’s “Emboldened:A Vision for Empowering Women in Ministry” (IVP Press, 2017). 6 Apr 20186 Apr 2018 This is not a book about how to interpret the passages used to prevent women from seeking ordination. If you're looking for a theological / scriptural argument, the best free…
Uncategorized “So Abraham Went” -Genesis 12. Sermon on All Saints Day Eve 2017/ 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation 31 Oct 201729 May 2018 Truett seminary hosted a preaching conference. All the sermons were to find their basis in Genesis. I preached earlier today, which happens to be Halloween (All Saints Day Eve), and…
Uncategorized MLK day, Two Views review on “Words about God,” and more. 16 Jan 201716 Jan 2017 Happy MLK, Jr. day. I hope we can spend the day wrestling with and furthering the as-of-yet-unrealized dream Martin Luther King, Jr. shared. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" should be required reading for…
Uncategorized The Rev. Mrs. Fleming Rutledge on Justification 19 Dec 201629 May 2018 "God is using you in spite of yourself. We aren't responsible for making progress. Whatever progress is made will be the gift of God. Jesus said, "Fear not, little flock.…
Uncategorized Fulbright Orientation Week 3: Why I love visiting churches and Why ecclesiology is like surgery. 2 Aug 20154 Aug 2015 I am thankful for those of my ETA friends who consistently put up with my slow learning. Each time we are out, they correct my lacking Korean pronunciation. And, as…
Uncategorized What scares the new atheists -John Gray 20 Jun 2015 It’s impossible to read much contemporary polemic against religion without the impression that for the “new atheists” the world would be a better place if Jewish and Christian monotheism had…
Uncategorized Pentecostal power -Curtis Freeman 17 Jun 201517 Jun 2015 Pentecostal power Members of the Baptist World Alliance and the Pentecostal World Fellowship will meet this coming August in Quito, Ecuador, for a series of ecumenical conversations to begin asking…
Uncategorized Teaching people to be congregational: renarrating voting -Stephen Holmes 12 Jun 2015 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we do church meeting badly… (‘we’ = ‘most British Baptists of whom I am aware’.) A part of the problem is,…
Uncategorized The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding… Stephen Holmes 12 Jun 2015 The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding is best exemplified by the unusual Baptist use of the word ‘church’. There is no ‘Baptist church’ that is not a…
Uncategorized 3 Things to Know About the Abercrombie Ruling- Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty- BJC 2 Jun 20152 Jun 2015 Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia said: Abercrombie’s argument that a neutral policy cannot constitute “intentional discrimination” may make sense in other contexts. But Title VII does not demand mere…
