Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have little patience for attempting to run churches by business principles. That’s been weighed in the scale and found wanting every time it’s been attempted. Last evening, as I was prepping for an interview I was to conduct with a supply chain exp...

This book comes out well before Easter to make sure that you are able to buy it, study it and then teach its truths to others as Easter comes about. The book is laid out to have 25 short teachings and thoughts on the cross of Christ. It has most theologians that you can think of in the Reformed and ...

I have a new job! I'm working as a general get 'er done guy at a cartographic library/museum. That means maps, son, and don't you forget it. Actually, this institution is a division of the university library where I have worked for the past 7 years or so, so I'm still swimming in the same pool, ya m...

Over at Islam and Christianity, Abu Daoud poses the question: OK people, tell me if this is way too harsh, maybe even venomous, or if it sounds more or less reasonable:[E]vangelicalism is in many of its forms a contextualization that reacted against what was (at times, justifiably) perceived as ossi...

Francis Schaeffer admits that this small book overlaps much of his book titled The God Who is There. What Schaeffer does in this small treatise is give a glimpse on the impact that Thomas Aquinas had on the thinking about nature and grace. Meaning that before Aquinas much of what was thought about G...

This is the first book of Schaeffer's that I have read, and I must say, I am pretty excited to continue to learn from this godly evangelist. In The God Who Is There, Schaeffer weaves in and out of so many philosophical systems and history that it is quite impossible to list it all in a book review. ...

I am currently reading "The God Who is There" by Francis Schaeffer and am really enjoying it. I am very angry at myself for not reading him earlier in life. He is truly amazing in thought and practice. I came to this thought from him and thought I would share it. Enjoy, and have a great weekend: But...

Frank Schaeffer: Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back Crazy for God is a memoir by Frank Schaeffer, the son of Francis Schaeffer, a major figure in 20th Century Evangelical culture and politics. It is a p...

Here's a couple of books I'm really looking forward to (lusting after?) reading: The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Tim Keller. This is Keller's take on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. If it's as good as his Reason for God, which I read back in May, then I can't wait f...

Still thinking of Senator Obama's quoteI may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of...