Several of my fellow bloggers have alluded to the role of the local church / local ministries in defining evangelicals, which got me to thinking about an experience that I had a few years ago.I heard a leader from a Mainline U.S. denomination speaking his thoughts on the denominational hierarchy. . . . . Continue Reading »
What is an evangelical? In a word: imputation. If there is one animating idea that separates evangelicals most precisely from Catholic, Orthodox, and mainline Christians, and from the rest of the world’s religions, needless to say, it’s that Christ’s righteousness is imputed, not . . . . Continue Reading »
As an example of the value of pop culture, I nominate Bugs Bunny cartoons. I have gotten more pleasure, and as a young man more education in wit, than in slogging through Ulysses. . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Anderson suggests that pop culture isn’t that interesting or durable, but these are not the only values a thing can have. Dare I say that a film, book, or project can have value by “merely” being entertaining?It might come as a shock to most Americans, but life is not . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece in today’s NRO about the Liverpool Care Pathway, which we have discussed here previously at SHS. From my column:The United Kingdom continues to provide vivid warnings about the dangers of centralized health-care planning — a real possibility under Obamacare. Within the last . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I’m teaching the rights part of con law this semester. O’Connor’s big contribution to constitutional interpretation, I’ve concluded, is try to bolster bad precedents because people have gotten used to them. Example one: Justice Powell’s opinion for the Court in . . . . Continue Reading »
This is stunning, yet wonderful news : [O]n the morning of October 20, 2009, the Holy See has, by Apostolic Constitution, provided the canonical vehicle for Anglican Christians to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church. The report goes on to note, inter alia, that: Expectations . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelicalism seems to be stuck without a consistent definition of church, both theologically and practically. Continue Reading »
One fear we must put aside in our quest for greater gospel-centrality is that it will not preach week to week. The enemy and our own flesh will test our commitment with the “plausible argument” (Col. 2:4) that the gospel will just sound so one-note. We are tempted to think the repetition . . . . Continue Reading »
Most internet users, surprisingly enough, don’t look to esoteric bloggers for answers. They turn to the Almighty Search Engine, which more often than not is Google (hey, we all can’t hang on to AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, and Webcrawler). Therefore, I thought our discussion of what is an . . . . Continue Reading »
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