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If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. 1 Corinthians 15:32 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. 1 Corinthians 6: 14 One of the shows my husband and I caught up on during the pandemic was The […]
When 12 Rules for Life hit bookstores in 2018, Jordan Peterson had already captured the imaginations of millions of YouTube viewers, a following that had grown out of his presentation of the psychological philosophy he had developed in his 1999 Maps of Meaning and made accessible in audiovisual form in his recorded classroom lectures. As […]
Capitol riot. Portland protests. MAGA. Woke. At the utterance of such words, primal emotions and tribal loyalties emerge with sharpness and severity. Words like these have come to represent two alternative universes on either side of reality—as near photographic negatives of one another. Both sides exhibit similar symptoms, revealing shared underlying pathologies; ideology over truth, […]
If Christian theology today is sometimes in disarray—as, indeed, I believe it is—then one of the major reasons is…its lack of roots. There can be few things more necessary for the renewal of Christian theology,” said John Webster, “than the promotion of awed reading of classical Christian texts, scriptural and other. John Webster Evangelicals are […]
“Make friends with people who want the best for you.” Jordan Peterson “You, Lord God, lover of souls, show a compassion far purer and freer of mixed motives than ours.” Augustine I had trouble making friends when I was young. Like many kids, I had learned through some tough (for a second grader) experiences a […]
As a general rule, I try not to make a practice of writing about “wokeness” or “political correctness” controversies—the genre is burned-over ground, and much of the time these clashes are simply reducible to sheer polarization between the American left and right. Every so often, though, something distinctly theologically significant is at stake. While reading […]
“Yesterday I was dead, and today, I live.” Only a select few can say this, Jesus Christ being eminent among them. In fact, Jesus went one step further, declaring in Revelation 1:18: “I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.” Only a few others in history […]
The prospects for Jesus look bleak. Before Pontius Pilate stands a mob calling for Jesus’s crucifixion. We expected this from the religious leaders, who could never stand Jesus’s claim to be the Son of God, nor His mission to save sinners rather than the righteous. For them, Jesus was nothing but a blasphemer and underminer […]
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4-5, ESV The Living Dead When I was a kid, one of the most terrifying movies I ever saw […]
It is often said that the turn to the subject occurred with Descartes’s ponderous musing on his existence. And despite his intentions to ground knowledge in a firmer foundation, Descartes’s move from “I think therefore I am” to the existence of God resulted in, through the twists of intellectual history, the popular dislocation of the […]
Every year I help plan worship services for the season of Lent at my Presbyterian church, and every year I am reminded that this is a bad idea by Carl Trueman’s essay and surrejoinder that invariably cross my desk. Having engaged in liturgical scholarship about Reformed participation in ecumenical liturgical movements of the past two […]
Having clarified what we’re really asking when we ask if God exists, some may understandably be concerned that we risk replacing the God of Abraham with the God of the philosophers. That is to say, once the decision is made to wed biblical and philosophical descriptions of God, the inevitable result is that all the […]
