My ex-boss has been reading John Piper & DA Carson’s The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor. These two are among the most prominent poster-boys for Conservative Evangelical (with very big Cs and Es) views. I have more sympathy for what I’ve read of Carson, but neither really connects with the things that [...]
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One of the interesting results of nearing retirement from Carey is that I find myself becoming more aware of “elephants in the room”. Somehow while I was still counting my remaining teaching at Carey in multiple years they remained, by and large, unnoticed. In this post I’d like to address the “elephant” of struggling students. [...]
The Barna group have a new book reporting a five year project on why the young are leaving church. The study of young adults focused on those who were regular churchgoers Christian church during their teen years and explored their reasons for disconnection from church life after age 15. From this study theyextract a brief [...]
Eddie Fearon (at Hermeneutica) was asking how I’d restructure teaching in Theology/Biblical Studies, I think his concern with my “we’d start with real world situations” suggestion was that the basics of biblical and theological disciplines would get lost. I think this infographic suggests how they could be ensured. Created by Knewton and Column Five Media [...]
Two Exciting Opportunities in Biblical Studies Lecturer in Old Testament Lecturer in New Testament This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the on-going development and shaping of Biblical studies at Carey Baptist College. After 19 outstanding years of teaching, our Lecturer in Old Testament Studies is to retire at the end of 2011. [...]
For a course I am teaching next semester I need some examples of Christians using psalms in the contemporary world. I’ve been searching YouTube and TextWeek. Frankly I’m less than impressed that what I’m finding will really stimulate my students to themselves be creative and effective in using psalms :( Can any of you point [...]
Randal Rauser has yet another excellent post: “Why conservatism is often riskier than you might think (and other observations on losing faith)” in which among other sensible stuff (that you really should read, if you don’t already subscribe to his blog) he says: A Christianity (liberal or conservative) which doesn’t present its adherents with a [...]
Jim West posts more rubbish every day (often in his attempts to prove two obvious truths: humans are depraved and [probably a particular case of the former one] governments act stupidly) than most bloggers manage in a month of Sundays, but today he has not one but two posts that are well worth reading: The [...]
The latest Tyndale Tech email just arrived. I do not usually repeat them here, I reckon if you are interested you subscribe! But this one has a much wider than usual potential readership. In it David Instone-Brewer of Tyndale House, Cambridge presents a pretty full list of the remarkable range of online or freely downloadable [...]
William Black, who writes his wise and often amusing reflections on church, life, theological education and everything Onesimus Online from Kenya. Has a post Call It Big, Large, Even Mega – Just Don’t Call It a Church that takes onthe question of church size. Since William reads his Bible few in the business of growing [...]
