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 …

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 …

Lent 2024 Series: I Am The Bread of Life: What Is the Eucharist?

https://youtu.be/Ne4CHt1ITTU?si=Nk6RThObu6p1rCD9 A series for Lent 2024 in two parts: What is the Eucharist? (this video) How Do We Celebrate the Eucharist? (next video) Eucharistic theology and practice have long been a favourite topic of mine, from posts like Bill Clinton's Eucharistic Theology: It Depends on What 'Is' Is to Don’t Tell People to “Come to the …

My Thoughts on “The Place of Scripture in the ACNA” from the North American Anglican

https://northamanglican.com/the-place-of-scripture-in-the-acna/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-place-of-scripture-in-the-acna I found this piece intriguing, and have several observations. In my interaction with Anglicans and Episcopalians on social media, I find myself the "last man standing" in terms of having a living memory of how it was done in the Episcopal Church (let along having been baptised an Episcopalian) before the church's version of …

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