Posted in some thoughts on Oct 5th, 2005
Contraception. I’ve a had a surprising number of conversations about this topic recently, especially since I’m single (and thus celibate). It’s just a non-issue for me personally, but many of my peers (and one of my brothers) are now married, newly married, or soon to be married. So I guess it shouldn’t be too strange [...]
Posted in relationships, some thoughts on Oct 5th, 2005
All (actually, the vast majority) of my books are now cataloged over at LibraryThing. As I was doing so, I kept remembering where certain books came from, what I was doing, who I was with, what was going on in my life. Many of them, I remembered, had been gifts. So, I thought a good [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Oct 3rd, 2005
A great battle rages today around biblical infallibility among evangelicals. To ignore the battle is perilous. To come to grips with it is necessary. To fail to speak is more than cowardice; it is sinful. There comes a time when Christians must not keep silent, when to do so is far worse than to speak [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Oct 3rd, 2005
I’ve met with some interesting responses to using the Westminster Confession of Faith as a (fallible) ‘map’ to the (inerrant) Bible in the Gospel 101 course. I found this passage in Michael Bauman’s Pilgrim Theology instructive: The difference…is between “confessional” and “confessionalism.” The former is an academic virtue, the latter is not. Confessions of faith [...]
Posted in gospel-class, some thoughts on Oct 2nd, 2005
Today we were to take up part I of the Doctrine of God (The Being of God), but didn’t because of some other (more important) activities going on at the same time (and in the same room), and also for lack of a quorum. Instead we discussed some questions that had come up regarding the [...]
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