Last Week’s Conference

Review of Western Fellowship of Professors and Scholars, 2009.

Happy Birthday, Jean Calvin

This year is the 500th anniversary of Jean Calvin’s birth.  Most of the folks I associate with in theological circles have an important disagreement with the reformer–we believe that God ultimately intends salvation for all people.  But sometimes I think one of the important contributions of Calvin is that he was willing to leave that [...]

Three Tasks for Theology

When my brother-in-law was about five he used to love telling a knock-knock joke: Knock-knock. Who’s there? Amos. Amos who? Amos bit me!
Then he would roar with laughter. He thought it was hilarious. He didn’t realize he was leaving out an important syllable. The joke was supposed to be [...]