The arts as new creationThis is a chapter from a series of essays, perhaps a book, called “Which Art in Heaven”. I wrote most of it three or four years ago (apart from an obvious updated reference) and have been...
C.S. Lewis an apostate?There’s a Philly Christian AM radio station I listen to on my drive down to school every week. Around 8:30 a.m., a program called “Watchman on the Wall” (part of the Southwest Radio...
Otherways: In search of an emerging theology
I have taken what feels like the rather bold step of collecting a number of my posts from Open Source Theology over the last five years and publishing them as a book using the excellent services of...
Is that third horizon just a mirage?Mike Morrell has articulated a good question about the thesis of The Coming of the Son of Man and Re: Mission. It comes down to this: Given the...
The particularity of the people of GodMike Morrell prompted me initially to respond to Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World, and has now posted some thought-provoking comments....
Emmanuel Katongole and A Future for AfricaI have started reading Emmanuel Katongole’s A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination as preparation for the Amahoro...
One of theOne of the more peculiar objections that John Piper raises against Wright’s understanding of Paul’s ‘gospel’ is that the announcement that Jesus is...
Katongole: How postmodernism hurts AfricaIn ‘Postmodern illusions and performances’, the fourth essay in A Future for Africa, Emmanuel Katongole argues that postmodernism is unlikely to...
The limited ambitions of the people of GodWilliam Cheriegate asked me to expand on the following remark in my post on Transmillennialism – not least for the benefit of those who ‘grew up in...
Sweet and Viola: A Jesus ManifestoLeonard Sweet and Frank Viola have recently issued A Magna Carta of Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ, a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st...