Last week, National Review Online published an anonymous article titled “Getting Serious about Pornography.” The testimonial of the author is heart-rending. She writes: “By his own account, my husband of 13 years and high-school sweetheart, was first exposed to pornography around age ten. He viewed it regularly during high school and college — and, although he tried hard to stop, continued to do so throughout the course of our marriage…
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Obamacare and Civil Disobedience
I’ve already been asked about the morality of paying taxes to the U. S. government in light of the new healthcare law which provides federal subsidies for abortion. Albert Mohler answers that question today in an extended essay on his website, and I commend it to you. “Render Unto Caesar? On Paying Taxes After Obamacare” – by Albert Mohler Mohler builds on two New Testament texts in particular that I think are important: Romans 13:1-7 and 1 Peter 2:13-17. Mohler rightly identifies the governing authority during Paul’s and Peter’s time as the Roman Empire. Both texts command Christians to subject themselves to governing authorities, and Romans 13:7 specifically commands Christians…
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Kevin DeYoung at Boyce College
We look forward to welcoming Kevin DeYoung to speak at Boyce College at 9:30pm on April 12th in Heritage Hall. DeYoung is no stranger to the students of Boyce College and Southern Seminary. He is an author whose books are top-shelf items among our people (see especially Just Do Something, Why We’re Not Emergent, Why We Love the Church, and The Good News We Almost Forgot [forthcoming]). He is the Senior Pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. And we couldn’t be happier to welcome him to campus.
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Gina Welch at the Zoo
Over the weekend, I watched @GinaWelch interviewed by Richard Metzger of the LA Times, and I thought it worth passing along.
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A Christ-Haunted Atheist
Anne Rice, the famous vampire novelist and author of Interview with a Vampire, shares her story for the “I Am Second” campaign. When she was a young woman, her faith gave way to existentialist philosophy, and she became what she calls a “Christ-haunted atheist.” Her apostasy lasted for 38 years before she returned to the faith of her youth. It really is a remarkable story. (HT: @drmoore)
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John Piper’s Leave
John Piper has announced that he will be taking an 8-month leave of absence from his duties at Bethlehem Baptist Church. As I was leaving church today, I received an e-mail from DesiringGod.org with a letter from Piper explaining why. He writes: “I asked the elders to consider this leave because of a growing sense that my soul, my marriage, my family, and my ministry-pattern need a reality check from the Holy Spirit. On the one hand, I love my Lord, my wife, my five children and their families first and foremost; and I love my work of preaching and writing and leading Bethlehem. I hope the Lord gives me…
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Mohler, Hamilton, Ware on NPR News
NPR News recently reported on Southern Seminary’s forum on Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity. The report includes remarks from Jim Hamilton, Bruce Ware, and Albert Mohler. You can listen to the report below or read the article here. [audio:http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2010/03/20100326_me_07.mp3?dl=1] Brian McLaren also speaks in this interview. His remarks confirm what was already clear in his book. McLaren rejects penal substitutionary atonement and says that he no longer believes in a “God who needs blood in order to be appeased.” McLaren also indicates that Jesus is not the only way to be saved. The report is slanted from the outset. She calls Hamilton and Ware “angry” and…
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Don’t Waste Your Cancer
Thank you, brother Zac. (HT: @John Piper)
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Review of “In the Land of Believers”
Gina Welch’s In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church is the narrative of the author’s two-year sojourn in the late Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church (TRBC) in Lynchburg, Virginia. As a life-long liberal atheist, Welch had always regarded evangelicals with an elitist contempt. Uncomfortable with her disdain, she goes undercover and joins the church in order to find out what evangelicals are really like. At the outset of her project, Welch observes miles of ideological distance between her and the subjects of her study. With respect to Jerry Falwell, she writes, “I considered him a homophobe, a fearmonger, a manipulator,…
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Josh Harris in SBTS Chapel
Josh Harris is in town to speak at Boyce College’s “No Idols” conference. The conferences starts tomorrow, but today he preached in our chapel. It was a penetrating exposition of Proverbs 3:5-6. Watch it above, or listen below. “Total Trust” – Proverbs 3:5-6 [audio:http://www.sbts.edu/media/audio/spring2010/20100318harris.mp3]
