Most working adults don’t dream of spending a week of their summer tromping through the mountains with 150 high schoolers and a copy of Plato’s Meno.  But the staff of Wheatstone Academy are an odd bunch. Wheatstone Academy is the brainchild of Dr. John Mark Reynolds, founder and director of the...

There are two great lies that I have heard: “The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die” and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class Republican and if you wanna be saved, you have to learn to be like Him… It would be easy to dismiss these lines from Derek Webb’s A...

Lent is a time for Christians to give up what is good in order to be reminded of something better. Fasting and prayer are linked in Scripture, and it seems that fasting is a discipline which intensifies our prayers. It does so not because it makes us more holy to abstain from food, or purifies us of...

In my last post I gave several theological arguments designed to undermine the presuppositions of egalitarianism, show that Christianity is inherently patriarchal, and prove that there does not need to be any inherent opposition between equality and hierarchy. Now I will examine three important Biblical...

Confronting discipline is uncomfortable. Walk by a person in the process of getting a traffic ticket. It’s awkward. Some pretend to be invisible. Others look with curiosity until the unfortunate driver sees them, then hurry away. In that situation, I often find myself feeling indignant towards the...

No one in the history of the church has been so equally reviled and adored by so many as John Calvin. Some of the greatest pastors, theologians and missionaries in both Great Britain and America have considered themselves Calvinists. And yet for the majority of modern American Evangelicalism, Calvin...

Several weeks ago, Tim Bayly noticed a college ministry called Gathering 629 had placed this quarter page ad in the Indiana University campus paper, Indiana Daily Student.

Several weeks ago, Tim Bayly noticed a college ministry called Gathering 629 had placed this quarter page ad in the Indiana University campus paper, Indiana Daily Student.

Several weeks ago, Tim Bayly noticed a college ministry called Gathering 629 had placed this quarter page ad in the Indiana University campus paper, Indiana Daily Student.

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