Announced in the Church Times: THE German theologian Professor Jürgen Moltmann, who was widely read in English translation, died on Monday, aged 98. A member of the Evangelical Church in Germany, he was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology in the University of Tübingen. But his serious theological reading first began in the UK, to which he was brought …
Facing Reality on Christian Colleges and the Liberal Arts Education
The news that Cornerstone University in Michigan is ending all humanities and arts programs (with booting of professors following) has shaken many in the Christian collegiate community. It's also something that comes close to home: this fall, Lord willing, I'll start teaching engineering at Lee University, which has been a liberal arts college for a …
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It’s That Time Again: Reflections on the 2024 Church of God General Council Agenda
It really is that time again: the Church of God is looking at another General Council and General Assembly in Indianapolis, IN. The agenda itself is here and I’ll be doing a “blow by blow” commentary on same. Before all of that let’s start with a cautionary note: the most significant part of the Council’s …
My Thoughts on “Lee University Doctrinal Integrity and Teaching Fidelity.”
Last month the Executive Council of the Church of God, in partnership with Lee University, completed the document referenced above. You can get the full details of this here. My purpose here is not to rehash the entire process (which started last September) but to comment on its results. The challenges from the culture that …
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My Mother the Exvangelical
These days the exvangelicals get a great deal of attention, both from those who are glad they're "ex-", those who aren't, and those who aren't sure there is an "ex-" from Evangelicalism. I fall into the last group, and a big reason for that was my own mother. Since next Sunday is Mother's Day, it's …
Dr. Howard Thomas: The Remarkable Deliverance of a Tennessee Physician from Drug Addiction–Flowers Pentecostal Heritage Center
This Week in AG History — May 3, 1970 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 02 May 2024 Dr. Howard Thomas (1927-2016) had a promising career as a physician, but a drug addiction almost destroyed his marriage and professional life in the early 1960s. After hitting rock bottom and ending up in a private …
My Response to “Embracing the Evangelism Opportunity as a General Department…..Again! Let’s Talk About It – Part One”
I was heartened to see Tim Hill's piece (reproduced by ourCOG) on this topic. As many of you know, I worked in the Department of Lay Ministries from 1996 to 2010, which came out of the Department of Evangelism and Home Missions in the early 1990's (something that Tim Hill mentions.) What many of you …
Textual Variants and Isopsephy in the New Testament :: By Randy Nettles #ourCOG
https://ourcog.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/textual-variants-and-isopsephy-in-the-new-testament-by-randy-nettles-ourcog After my post yesterday Why I’m Not Sold on Modern Biblical Scholarship/Criticism ourCOG posted this interesting treatment on the New Testament manuscripts, their variants and the significance (or lack thereof) of those variants. There's no question that the Bible--Old and New Testaments--is the best attested book to come out of classical antiquity, a point …
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Why I’m Not Sold on Modern Biblical Scholarship/Criticism
In a post on another one of my sites I announce a transition: this fall, Lord willing, I will begin teaching engineering at Lee University, which is my church's undergraduate institution. It is the first time since haunted the halls of the St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton, FL, that I have been either a …
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Those Pesky Pedobaptists
I decided to have the good taste to wait until after Holy Week to respond to the North American Anglican's two posts on this subject: Lee Nelson's Credobaptism and Anglicanism and Alexander Wilgus' The Baptist Sacrament. Both of these were in response to Matthew Joss' The Case for Baptist Anglicans. Evidently this eminent site could …
Positive Infinity 