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Evolution.

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:23:39 -0400

Evolution.

Archbishop of Canterbury on the Pope’s plan to let in the...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:06:45 -0400

Archbishop of Canterbury on the Pope’s plan to let in the Anglo-Catholics with a minimum of fuss, “which he knew nothing about until two weeks ago.”

Narrow is the gate

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:01:41 -0400

johnthelutheran:

“The marginal comment on this delicate passage in the Geneva Bible is entertaining; it stresses that the rich whom the Apostle condemns to weep and howl are the wicked and profane rich.”

— Christopher Hill on Puritan interpretations of James 5:1-6, (from The World Turned Upside Down, p.334n)

Geek.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:45:16 -0400

Geek.

noelledeg: drip drip drip

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:45:43 -0400

noelledeg:

drip drip drip

“One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:56:10 -0400

“One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is that the commandments teach us to believe that bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental hymn, then you pray some pointless prayer, and the next thing you know you have murdered your best friend.” — Stanley Hauerwas

johnthelutheran: longtweets: tiphereth: arial versus...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:51:09 -0400

johnthelutheran:

longtweets:

tiphereth:

arial versus helvetica - the ready reckoner

“For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:35:00 -0400

“For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?”

—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, “Prefatory Address to King Francis,” p. 13.

"The Anglican Church in North America will be formally founded next week, challenging the legitimacy..."

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:23:00 -0400

“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.”

- New Anglican Church poses dilemma

boundless stars

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:08:48 -0400

boundless stars

"My personal observation is that very few congregations are growing by actually reaching ‘real..."

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:23:04 -0400

“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.”

- Christianity Losing Ground in America?

"Instead, what passes as ‘serious academic scholarship’ among many Evangelicals and..."

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:00:00 -0400

“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.”

- Euangelion: The Skunk Doth Speakth

Understanding Git

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:54:41 -0400

Harvard University has a helpful tutorial on the increasingly-popular distributed version control system known as Git.

Filipino Time

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:13:00 -0500

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.

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Pelikan on the Reformed Tradition

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:42:25 -0400

“… 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..."

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:22:00 -0400

“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..."

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:58:04 -0400

“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.””

- John Frame, Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian: An Extended Interview with John M. Frame

From the “God Is Green?” IRD Conference

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:54:24 -0500

From the “God Is Green?” IRD Conference

Chaput on the Church and Caesar

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:04:00 -0500

Chaput on the Church and Caesar

wyclif

Evolution.

Archbishop of Canterbury on the Pope’s plan to let in the...

Narrow is the gate

Geek.

noelledeg: drip drip drip

“One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to...

johnthelutheran: longtweets: tiphereth: arial versus...

“For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize...

"The Anglican Church in North America will be formally founded next week, challenging the legitimacy..."

boundless stars

"My personal observation is that very few congregations are growing by actually reaching ‘real..."

Christianity Losing Ground in America?

"Instead, what passes as ‘serious academic scholarship’ among many Evangelicals and..."

Understanding Git

Filipino Time

Pelikan on the Reformed Tradition

"If I see another cool Bible college student or pastoral studies major wearing the hemp choker..."

"Theologians have seemed to me to be less and less able to develop substantial arguments for their..."

From the “God Is Green?” IRD Conference

recent posts on The Bride and the Dragon

Chaput on the Church and Caesar