Interpreting Doctrinal Statements in a Shifting Evangelical Landscape
by Kevin Hester Recently, I have been working with an ad hoc committee for an evangelical organization tasked with considering admission standards. For many years, this organization has espoused a basic Evangelical statement of faith as the basis for membership. Institutions and groups have been asked to sign…
Are We Reading the Gospels Wisely?
by Jackson Watts Near the end of 2015 I began reading Jonathan Pennington’s excellent book entitled Reading the Gospels Wisely: A…
Favorite Books in 2015
by Theological Commission It is the time of year when many readers are finishing up their last minute Christmas shopping. But by now, many who read blogs will also be seeing “Top Books” lists of many shapes and sizes. Sometimes these can be difficult to wade through as…
Moving Beyond Partisan Politics
by Kevin Hester I recently read an article in Time magazine that traced the seemingly permanent impasse in the federal government to the election of a number of representatives during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. At a meeting with incoming House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich and…
Christians and Cultural Transformation
by Matthew Pinson (the following is a blog post originally published here on the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission blog; ) I recently listened to a podcast of the White Horse Inn in which Michael Horton featured the ongoing transformation of Mackenzie University, a prestigious…