Gee, so Randall Balmer doesn’t like Ross Douthat’s new book, Bad Religion? Shocker. Yes, this morning’s Times confirms what anyone could have known before Douthat even conceived of such a book: the liberal Balmer doesn’t like Douthat’s thesis. Balmer’s predictability is on full display in this review which is pretty much an adventure in missing the…
At the end of his provocative essay, “Sex in Public: How Adventurous Christians Are Doing It,” Stanley Hauerwas articulates a crucial point: “[W]hat the young properly demand is an account of life and the initiation into a community that makes intelligible why their interest in sex should be subordinated to other interests. What they, and…
I have just posted a review of Pete Enns’ important new book, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Human Origins (Brazos, 2012) over at The Colossian Forum site.
Listening to a sermon on Mark 10 yesterday, I was struck by a juxtaposition in Jesus’ encounter with the rich, young ruler in Mark 10:17-31. Specifically, after the young ruler has announced–quite sincerely, I think–that he has kept all the commandments from his youth, Mark tells us in his typically direct language: Jesus, looking at…
In case you missed it, see A Postcard from Q, my final post over at The Twelve blog.
A couple of years ago the editor of Faith and Economics asked me to be part of a published exchange with J. David Richardson, Professor of Economics & International Relations at Syracuse University. Dave and I had some cordial exchanges when I organized a conference on secularity and globalization back in 2005 (which resulted in…