For day three of the Old Life Prayer Vigil, a few excerpts from Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture, given this past Monday night in Washington, D.C. First, a cautionary word by implication to the W-Wists: In my reading of the historian John Lukacs, I have been most instructed by his understanding that there is no knowledge… Read More→
Carl Trueman has a very good essay about the ways in which megachurch and multi-site pastors, along with large-scale parachurch organizations are undermining small congregations and denominations. Here is an excerpt: I noticed recently one individual marketing himself as someone who had planted numerous churches. This was clearly being presented as an unconditionally good thing.… Read More→
Justin Taylor gives a helpful tip about the health of Tim Keller’s mojo. Apparently, he hasn’t lost it. The proof is a feature in New York Magazine with the unfortunate title, “Tim Keller Wants to Save Your Yuppie Soul†(which invites the question, “what must I do to be yuppie?â€). Mr. Taylor’s point seems to… Read More→
Who’s Your Bishop?
I wonder what Christian Smith is thinking today about words he wrote (published in 2011) about his conversion to Roman Catholicism: I also worry a bit in all of this that, for all of the standard associations of apostasy and error that “Rome” evokes for some Protestants, the same “Rome” may stir up unduly romanticized… Read More→