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Christopher Jackson
In a culture that has given itself over to extreme moral accountability, grace and mercy will never cease to be a scandal. Continue Reading »
Tullian Tchividjian, grandson to Billy Graham, has again assumed the pulpit. Continue Reading »
Protestantism will be purified only insofar as she is willing to contend conservatively for the faith once delivered to the saints. Continue Reading »
Lutherans should not fall for depictions of Luther as one whose self-conflict gives rise to blasphemy. Continue Reading »
Catholics should resist importing from today's Lutherans a view of Luther that Luther himself would not have recognized. Continue Reading »
As a recent Atlantic essay points out, Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber’s emphasis on sin and grace in Christ sounds downright conservative. Her congregation even utilizes orthodox Lutheran liturgy! In a sense, the claims to Lutheran orthodoxy are correct. Bolz-Weber’s approach is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Tullian Tchividjian was Evangelical royalty, and once again we are reminded never to put our hope in princes. Grandson to Billy Graham, Tchividjian assumed the legendary pulpit of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church on Easter Sunday, 2009. Now he has joined Mark Driscoll and Ted Haggard as a megachurch . . . . Continue Reading »
As a confessing Lutheran in a doctoral program at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS), the institution at the center of the Calvinist Baptist movement, I have watched with interest the conflict over Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). While the seminary is not formally Calvinist, it is no secret that many of its faculty and students love Reformed theology … Continue Reading »
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