Registration is now open for Dordt College’s upcoming conference, Calvinism for the 21st Century, April 8-10, 2010. Launching from Calvin’s 500th birthday, the conference considers the future of Calvinism and will feature several plenary speakers such as Jim Skillen, Vincent Bacote, Julia Stronks, and myself, along with an array of papers in parallel sessions from…
My latest book, Desiring the Kingdom, has been generating some discussion and garnering a bit of attention over the past couple of weeks. I’m grateful for these engagements as they’ve helped me pinpoint some lacunae in my account, and exchanges have provided a welcome opportunity to make some clarifications. So readers might be interested in…
The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, to which I regularly point folks here at Fors Clavigera, quickly established a site for donating to aid in rescue and recovery in Haiti. Please give. The CRWRC has longtime connections in Haiti, strong relationships on the ground, and can leverage local, indigenous leaders to show mercy from the…
I’m trying a little experiment over at What I’m Reading: blogging my way through Thomas Merton’s classic, The Seven Storey Mountain, which was my meditative holiday reading. I have this sense that one day I’ll look back on the season spent reading it as pivotal in my pilgrimage, so I’m combing back through it and…
Sometimes we don’t know what we like. Our tastes operate at a visceral level that often elude articulation. On one level, we “know” what we like, what delights us; but on another level we’re often unable to say what we “know” in this sense. (And herein lies one of the functions of good criticism: a…
Yesterday kicked-off Calvin College’s annual January Series–three weeks of free, noontime lectures by a wide variety of authors and experts. Over its two decades it has become a Grand Rapids institution–the brightness of a little liberal arts education crammed into the dreariness of west Michigan winter. And anyone in the world can listen live on…