Gene Veith, incoming Academic Dean at Patrick Henry College and culture editor at WORLD magazine, has written a fitting epilogue to the media maelstrom surrounding the faculty shake-up at Patrick Henry College: “Patrick Henry College makes the news.â€I wrote about this shake-up earlier this week and wondered what was really going on at PHC. Dr. Veith clarifies some things that were anything but clear in the intitial reports that I read. You should read Veith’s piece. (HT: John Divito)
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Peggy Noonan for Hire? Bush Needs Her Again.
Readers of my blog know that I love Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal. She took a break from writing her column in 2004 in order to help President Bush get re-elected. I really think that he could use her advice again now.Noonan hits another homerun in her commentary today on President Bush’s immigration speech, and I hope that the President and his administration are listening. Her main critique is that the President didn’t really address the issue with the seriousness that his base is calling for. She writes: What was needed was a definitive statement: “As of this moment we will control our borders, I’m sending in…
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Me Church
Well, if you enjoyed “Get in Here Ministries†(as many of my readers did) then I think you will want to check out “Me Church.â€When you get to the “Me Church†page, click on the preview link beneath the picture. This one will revolutionize the way you do church. These guys really know how to reel them in.
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Veni Vidi Vici DaVinci
A recent British survey has found that The DaVinci Code undermines faith. According to the survey, people who have read The DaVinci Code “are twice as likely to believe Jesus Christ fathered children and four times as likely to think the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei is a murderous sect†(source).The tragic thing about this survey is not the troubling reality that people clearly don’t know how to distinguish fictional genres from historical ones. The tragic thing is that an error in this particular case is damning. The single biggest question that any person will every have to come to grips with is “Who is Jesus?†Dan Brown’s manifestly fictional…
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Calvinism a Problem at Patrick Henry College
Well, if you read my last post, I ended by saying that I look forward to hearing more of the story of what’s going on with the faculty departures at Patrick Henry College. According to Christianity Today, at least one of the reasons for tension between the faculty and the President was Calvinism. [President] Farris, a Baptist minister, has publicly expressed views that have shocked some professors and students. “He said St. Augustine was in hell,†said [Professor] Root. “I heard it with my own ears.†Other professors and students said Farris has repeatedly disparaged Calvinist theology. “There is a sense that you face antagonism as someone who is theologically…
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Faculty Shake-up at Patrick Henry College
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K . . . oops, I meant Patrick Henry College. According to the LA Times, one professor was fired and three others resigned in protest. One of the exiting professors was Todd Bates, former professor at Criswell College where I teach.The LA Times writes: Patrick Henry College, the small evangelical Christian school founded six years ago to train students for careers in public life, gained national prominence for placing many students in White House internships and other government positions. Now five of the school’s 16 faculty members have left, saying the school’s approach is too doctrinaire to prepare students for the realities of…
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Broadcasting Sexless Marriages and All Things Gender
I will be hosting Jerry Johnson Live today and will be talking about gender issues and the role of men and women in the church and in the home. I will be talking about Dr. Russell Moore’s fascinating commentary, “Sexless Marriages.†Dr. Randy Stinson, executive director of the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, will be my guest.If you are in the Dallas area, you can hear the show on 90.9 FM from 5-6pm CST. Or you can listen to the show through the live stream at the radio station’s website. Or you can download the podcast via iTunes later this evening. For those of you who may be listening…
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Get In Here Ministries
If you haven’t done so already, you need to check out “Get In Here Ministries.†They have a website that features a video interview with the two founders of the ministry, Johnny Lang and Chachi Laruso.These guys will revolutionize your thinking about Christianity and its mission. I urge you to watch the video and be transformed by “Get In Here Ministries.†It will change you life forever.
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Ehrman & Hays: Caricaturing Inerrancy
In a previous post, I made reference to a recent debate between Bart Ehrman and Richard Hays. For all of their disagreements about the origins of Christianity, they were in decided agreement in their caricature of inerrancy. This kind of an attitude does not surprise me coming from Bart Ehrman. I’ve seen him misrepresent the inerrancy position before, and I have written about it on this blog.
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Shut up and Sing . . . On Second Thought, don’t sing either.
Newsweek magazine reports that pop artists are jumping on the Bush-bashing bandwagon (click here for the story). From Pink, to Paul Simon, Neil Young, Bruce Springstein, and even to Merle Haggard, they’re all coming out to beat up on Bush.As Newsweek points out, the interesting thing about this latest round of protests is that unlike Vietnam era protests which were aimed at “the establishment†and “the man†in general, these protests are focused rather narrowly on President Bush. For these entertainers, Bush is the personification of political and imperial evil.