The good folks at Brazos Press are hosting a little contest. Here’s the deal: 1. Visit their Facebook page and “like” Brazos Press. 2. Submit a question that you’d like to ask me about the “new Calvinism” and the resurgence of Reformed theology amongst the young, restless, and Reformed crowd. 3. They’ll then choose 3…
For those in the vicinity, just a reminder of a couple of upcoming events this week in connection with my new book, Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition. Friday, December 3, 7:30pm: Talk & book signing at Baker Book House Saturday, December 4, 10am-12pm: Book signing at the Calvin College…
I have a deep ambivalence about Thanksgiving as a holiday. For example, it’s not properly part of the (transnational) church’s liturgical year, and it tends to be easily conflated with American civil religion–while also tending to paper over the history of colonialism. But while the “official” holiday is at least questionable, certainly gratitude and thanksgiving…
Over at the Immanent Frame today, Jonathon Kahn offers some reflections that grow out of the Teagle-funded initiative, “Secularity and the Liberal Arts.” Kahn’s post, “Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts,” is essential reading for anyone involved in higher education–whether at public universities or Christian colleges. The very fact that such…
Today I deactivated my Facebook account and submitted the request for its deletion (to stave off any temptation from second thoughts later on). After being a Facebook user for about 3 months, I have decided to leave the FB world. I’ll be sad to be “disconnected” from some of my “friends,” but I’m feeling very…
There are strains of the Reformed tradition which like to emphasize that they are “always reforming,” invoking the Latin semper reformanda as a motto. But if one analyzes when and how this is invoked, one will notice something very slippery: that under the banner of “reforming” what we get is really just an agenda for…