Collin Garbarino

Recently the Onion , the best fake-news site around, ran a satirical piece entitled “ Nation Currently more Sympathetic to Demise of Planet Krypton than Plight of Syria .” It’s funny because it’s true. It’s also kind of sad. Some people will point to things like this and . . . . Continue Reading »

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I spent 13 years as a student in the public-school system. My mother just retired after teaching in the public-school system for more than 28 years. I married a public-school teacher, though she quit after our first child was born. My wife’s mother was a . . . . Continue Reading »

http://vimeo.com/68504126#at=0 Over the last couple of months, I have written a few posts related to Calvinism’s place in the Southern Baptist Convention. Recent events at Louisiana College have figured prominently in discussions on this topic. Last week at the annual meeting of the Southern . . . . Continue Reading »

My colleague at Houston Baptist University, Sara Frear, entered the blogosphere today. I think her inaugural piece, “No News Is Good News,” might be of interest to many readers of First Things . At one point she writes: But is the good really the norm?  With all the brokenness of . . . . Continue Reading »

My sister-in-law recently alerted me to a humorous announcement in the bulletin of her Catholic parish. The priest of Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Hammond, LA, would like for his parishioners to know: PLANS FOR PARISH SWIMMING POOL SCRAPPED! After much study, our finance committee has determined . . . . Continue Reading »

Dean Koontz recently released the latest installment in his Odd Thomas series, Deeply Odd . These supernatural thrillers have gained quite a following among conservatives because the books reject moral relativism and critique America’s political correctness. Though they are thrillers, the . . . . Continue Reading »

In my post “Why We Don’t Have Lutheran Baptists,” I wrote, “Both reformers, Martin Luther and John Calvin, had similar doctrines of soteriology.” Since that post went up, my inbox has been peppered with alerts from Google notifying me that Lutheran bloggers and commenters . . . . Continue Reading »

David Koyzis asks why we have Calvinist Baptists, but no Lutheran Baptists. He makes some good points in his piece . There is a certain awkwardness when discussing Calvinists within the Baptist tradition. Baptists are called Baptists because we baptize those who profess belief in Christ, while . . . . Continue Reading »

In recent years, Southern Baptists have been debating Calvinism’s role within the convention. Over the last couple of decades there’s been a resurgence of Calvinist theology in the SBC which some members have not welcomed. Though there are many points of tension, predestination is the . . . . Continue Reading »

This morning I tumbled down a rabbit hole of divinely inspired social media. I always knew that I could connect with friends and acquaintances through Facebook and Twitter, but I hadn’t considered using those platforms to strengthen my connection to God. As it turns out the Internet offers . . . . Continue Reading »