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The Nicene Creed, A DVD Documentary
Some of you might have noticed this, but I thought it appropriate to point out on Evangel that First Things has produced its first video, The Creed: What Christians Profess,...
St. Augustine and the Beauty of the Old Testament
A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of lectures on the early church fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of...
Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy
Evangelicals have been blessed with the recent increase of studies on the early church fathers. For example, Michael Haykin’s Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They...
Reading Classics Aloud
Reflecting on Kevin Kiley’s article “Long Reads” at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O’Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got...
Chesterton on Fairy Tales and Evil
G. K. Chesterton had a way with words. Some of my favorite quotes come from him, and that includes a quote about fairy tales. The quote is usually stated...
Flannery O’Conner’s Sacramental Worldview: “Others Are Christ”
Reviewing a book titled The Son of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote about the problems of good and evil in human nature and...
Serving Tea to Those who Destroy “the Church”
Leighton Ford: Many years ago my late friend J. Christy Wilson was pastor of the first ever Christian church in Kabul, Afghanistan. Through the good offices of President Eisenhower...
Ministers: Masters (of Divinity) or Managers (of Organizations)?
In a lecture on Introductory Theology, Kevin Vanhoozer describes how ministers were once considered Masters of theology, but now are considered Managers of programs for whom theology is only...
Creating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise
My friend Tim Russell, headmaster of Westminster Academy in Memphis, TN, pointed me to a fascinating article in the New York Times by Judith Shulevitz titled, “Creating Sabbath Peace...
Interview with Kevin DeYoung on The Good News We Almost Forgot in the Heidelberg Catechism
Speaking about the value of catechism…Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI, and one of the bloggers here at Evangel, recently agreed to an interview...
The Value of Catechism
Michael Ives maintains a blog called “West Port Experiment.” It caught my eye some time back because of the emphasis on parish ministry. The title of his blog comes...
Witnesses to the Resurrection: Timmy Bishop (1999-2010)
I first met Timmy Bishop in January of 2004 when he and his parents, Tim and Jennifer, came to our house for a meal. Timmy was four at the...
The God Who Provides
The beginning of a New Year is a time to reflect on God’s kindness and goodness to us, but we are often concerned and fearful about the future. What...
The Gospel and the Whole Christ
With some of the discussion regarding the gospel, I wanted to point out a recent post by Mark Jones titled “The Gospel and Sanctification.” Mark did his doctoral work...
The Manhattan Declaration: A Statement from Ligon Duncan
Ligon Duncan, a signer of the Manhattan Declaration and president of The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, explains that they have received a number of requests concerning the Manhattan Declaration...
