I’m starting to experiment with using Scribd a bit, and just uploaded my first paper. Entitled “Worldview, Sphere Sovereignty, and DTK: A Guide for (Perplexed) Reformed Folk,” this was a paper I presented last week at the ARIHE Symposium, a gathering of presidents, administrators, and educators from Reformed colleges and universities. One could think of…
While browsing in the Eerdmans booth at the American Academy of Religion meeting, I got sucked into Charles Matthewes new book, The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times. While it’s not absolutely central to the theme of the book, this comment in the Introduction stuck with me: It may seem oddly limiting to…
A couple of interviews that might be of interest: First, I was interviewed by Kenneth Sheppard for Patrol Magazine on “Philosophy, Culture, and Communication”–a conversation about academic life, public scholarship, and how Christian scholars serve the church. Second, I was interviewed for Inner Compass, Calvin College’s PBS program on religion and culture. That is now…
When I read J. Kameron Carter’s commanding Race: A Theological Account, I had just a twinge of concern that his senior colleague at Duke, Willie James Jennings, had been “scooped” just a bit. Jennings began work along these lines back in the early 1990s, but then he got swept up into administrative duties at Duke…
We’ve set up a Facebook page for Letters to a Young Calvinist at, surprisingly enough, https://www.facebook.com/LettersToaYoungCalvinist. Since the book really aims to be a primer and invitation to a wider conversation, we’ll use this Facebook page as a way to highlight other resources, point to relevant conversations, and hopefully host some discussion of the book…
Letters to a Young Calvinist has now been released and should be available at booksellers near you. I received my copies a couple of weeks ago and was jazzed to see it in print. Brazos has done a great job creating a cool little book that is accessible and approachable in its format and presentation….