“The Anglican Church in North America will be formally founded next week, challenging the legitimacy of the U.S. Episcopal Church and posing a dilemma for the worldwide Anglican Communion over who represents Anglicanism in the United States and Canada.”
“My personal observation is that very few congregations are growing by actually reaching ‘real converts’ week-by-week. The evidence that biblical evangelism is actually transforming significant numbers of people is very small. What amazes me is that the ordinary Christian in the typical church doesn’t really care.”
“Instead, what passes as ‘serious academic scholarship’ among many Evangelicals and Reformed amounts to self-affirming dialogues carried on between people who insulate themselves within various ‘safe’ Confessional and publishing contexts.”
Understanding Git
Harvard University has a helpful tutorial on the increasingly-popular distributed version control system known as Git.
Filipino Time
As a Western traveler, I’ve discovered that there are 4 types of time in the Philippines:
- Standard time (professionals and students only)
- Filipino time (the most prevalent type, typically 1 hour late)
- Indian time (no-show for appointment)
Then there’s Mañana time, so forget about GTD today.
Pelikan on the Reformed Tradition
“… it was alien to the Reformed way of teaching to draw ontological parallels between the Eucharist and the incarnation [in contrast to the Lutherans]… . it was a characteristic of Reformed theologians, and [one] not sufficiently grasped by Lutheran polemics, that in their attempts to specify just what the Reformed churches did teach about the Lord’s Supper and how this differed from what other churches taught, they would recur to the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.”
— J. Pelikan, Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700), 202.
“If I see another cool Bible college student or pastoral studies major wearing the hemp choker necklace, flip-flops, open-at-the-collar shirt that’s untucked, and baggy jeans, saying words like “dude” and “sweet”, I will kick their ass.”
“Why I Walked Out of Church”— Julie Neidlinger
“Theologians have seemed to me to be less and less able to develop substantial arguments for their proposals. Often they simply express their preferences, quote people who agree with them, distort and caricature the positions of those who disagree, and then consider their case to be established. Many don’t seem to have a clue as to how to make a cogent theological case.”
