Archive for the ‘The Gospel’ Category

Intentional Ambiguity: Telling it Slant

In the recent inaugural episode of Barak Wright’s arts and culture podcast, The Sandbox Monthly, Ken Myers talked about the dearth of genuine speech on the radio. Real conversation is full of starts and stops, hesitations, and the kind of awkwardness not found in the canned speech of radio personalities,...
December 7th, 2009 | Art & Literature, Logic & Rhetoric, The Gospel | Read More

Reconciliation

Geography is important to any city. By looking at the placement of houses, entertainment and work places, one can slowly piece together both the citizens’ character and philosophy. Temples and important public buildings not only dictated where people socialized but provided people with a way of...
August 26th, 2009 | Apologetics, Other, Religion, The Gospel | Read More

Calling All Abolitionists

When Bethany Hoang (now director of the International Justice Mission Institute) turned in papers on modern slavery for her seminary classes, her professors docked points from her grades for lying.  Eventually she learned to bring in stacks of reports from the CIA and the U.S. State Department to back...
May 16th, 2009 | Human Rights, Other, The Gospel | Read More

America’s Christless Christianity

Back in the 1940’s Donald Grey Barnhouse, a Presbyterian pastor, asked the question, “What would it be like if Satan took over a city?” Barnhouse speculated that if Satan took over Philadelphia, all of the bars would be closed, pornography banished, and pristine streets would be filled with tidy...
May 10th, 2009 | Book Reviews, Media, The Gospel | Read More

The Kingdom of Heaven is Like a Sourdough Starter

By Elena Johnston I’ve been doing a lot of sourdough baking lately. It’s become something of an obsession. I tend to do that. I’ll latch onto an idea, and go a little crazy with it. The idea just grows and grows until it seems permeate everything. And then, while I’m busy...
April 14th, 2009 | The Gospel | Read More

The Gospel in 6 Minutes

A few days ago Tim Challies wrote: What if there was a ten minute video clip (with transcript) of John Piper sharing the gospel? Wouldn’t it be an amazing thing if [this] could be promoted to the front page [of social media sites] and be seen by thousands or tens of thousands? In response, Desiring...
September 16th, 2007 | The Gospel | Read More