Tag Archives: evangelicalism

Why You Won’t Find Jesus On Facebook

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 1, 2011

For those who prefer personal embodiment to an on-line presence as the means for maintaining friendship, Facebook has no real appeal. This doesn’t necessarily make non-Facebook users better people but it may make for better friendship since the real me is more of me than the virtual me. (Of course, the real me could always… Read More→

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Young, Restless and Lutheran?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 26, 2011

If you read Collin Hanson’s book on the young Calvinists you will discover that of Dort’s five points the young and restless ones affirm at most two of the five. You will also see that what drives young Calvinists has less to do with the five points of Calvinsim than with one big point –… Read More→

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Why Do Reformed Think They Are Evangelical?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 18, 2011

If Reformed Protestantism is basically evangelical then how do you account for the major divisions that have occurred among American Presbyterians? The fundamentalist controversy apparently has nothing at stake for the Reformed/evangelical consensus since Machen and other conservative Presbyterians were fighting liberalism and EVERYONE knows that liberalism is bad. (Of course, the problem here is… Read More→

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The Danger of Revivals and of Their Critics

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 8, 2011

Our favorite PCA blogger has once again kicked up a little e-dust with a review of Kenneth Stewart’s new book, Ten Myths about Calvinism: Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition. The review itself is worth reading, as is a subsequent post that explains the author’s perspective (the author being pastor William H. Smith aka… Read More→

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Al Mohler, the Gospel Coalition, and Me (about whom it always is)

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 21, 2011

Name-dropper alert: Al Mohler and I have been friends for over two decades. (The Harts used to be on the Mohler’s Christmas card list until the former’s nomadic way of life prompted USPS to stop forwarding those attractive greetings from the president’s house in Louisville.) Al and I met when we were participants in a… Read More→

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Speaking Truth to Fame

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 19, 2011

Carl Trueman has some provocative thoughts on the difference between American and British evangelicalism and the conferences that sustain them. He was speaking at an event in Wales: First, the conference was built around content not speakers. In fact, I was almost refused entry to my own final seminar because I could not find my… Read More→

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If the Gypsy Curse is “May You Receive What You Want”. . .

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 11, 2011

Is the evangelical curse, “May Your Vote Count”? That seems to be the outcome from the Tea Party’s Revolution, according to number four in Christianity Today’s Top Ten Stories of 2010. Pro-life groups had targeted Democrats – even pro-life ones – who voted for President Obama’s health care package because of its apparent allowance of… Read More→

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Now He’s Channeling DG

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 12, 2010

And I don’t mean Desiring God Ministries. Carl Trueman offers some preliminary thoughts on the Christianity Today feature story on Al Mohler. Trueman recognizes a potential trap in offering a response. If Mohler represents evangelicalism, then the born-again identity is really much smaller than the evangelical guardians at Christianity Today and the National Association of… Read More→

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Joining the Club?

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 21, 2010

“Trey” may think that Carl Trueman puts it more graciously than we have, but the Lord Protector of Westminster Seminary has another stellar post about the significance of The King’s College’s new president, a Roman Catholic, Dinesh D’Souza. Trueman writes (but the entire post is worth reading): OK. So evangelicalism writ large verges on the… Read More→

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Is Creation for Evangelicals and Neo-Reformed what Donuts Are for Homer Simpson?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 30, 2010

I am noticing a trend, trend-spotters that historians are, and it does not appear to be promising. Over at Christianity Today, Scott Sabin, author of Tending to Eden, connects the dots among – hold on to your baseball cap – evangelism, “compassionate justice ministry,” and earth care. On a global scale, restoration is a monumental… Read More→

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