There are many benefits to be had through the Internet, but it can never replace the sort of community which exists between professors and students in the classroom, lunchroom, and the professor’s office. Over the years many things have changed at Westminster Seminary California (WSC). In the most important ways, however, the seminary has not... Continue Reading

This path of prolonged singleness is a two way street. But I think the problem largely resides with men. Or at least as a guy I can identify the problems of men more quickly. I see two issues. First, the Christian men that are “good guys” could use a little–what’s the word I’m looking for–ambition.... Continue Reading

A half-century ago John F. Kennedy said that if some doubt whether the West has the courage to stand up to Communism, “Let them come to Berlin.” Today a sense of entitlement leaves some folks complaining instead of working, and sociologists doubt that Americans still have a pioneering spirit. Let them come to Springfield and... Continue Reading

As a father and Reformed Christian, I can appreciate Leithart’s desire to tell his three year old child that he is justified by virtue of his baptism. Nevertheless, I do find his view problematic on several fronts. The following is from page 246 of the Peter Leithart trial transcript: Q: Right. So is there a... Continue Reading

In other words, a community — or an individual — creates or constructs what is true. Something is true because the community or the individual believes it to be true. There are times when I peruse the daily news and can relate to the main character in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Penned by writer and... Continue Reading

What makes this definition odd, especially in reference to Presbyterians, is that (Tim) Keller has been involved in the recent debates over subscription within the PCA in ways that have expanded the boundaries. …it would be hard to read Keller’s understanding of the PCA or his presence in those debates as placing him on the... Continue Reading

Thus, for example, Ephesians 1:3-14 (one extended sentence in Greek) is divided into three sentences by the KJV, and up to fourteen or so sentences by some of the modern simple language translations. But this punctuation is a matter of editorial choice. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic (the Aramaic portions... Continue Reading

John Piper, author of What’s the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible, explained why men, and not women, should be the leaders in their homes and the church. “The Bible really cares about the dynamic between men and women. It has nothing to do with a woman’s incompetency,” Piper said during a... Continue Reading

This month, of course, even my local Kroger has been filled with skeletons and tombstones. But real death—standing in the chapel three feet from a crying widow and the temporal body of her husband—is far more horrible. The plastic bones in aisle 12 trivialize the impact of death Last week, my five-year-old son spent a... Continue Reading

Sanders’ book, however, has changed the direction of Pauline studies, for he has convinced many scholars that the traditional picture of Judaism constructed by New Testament scholars does not accord with Palestinian Judaism as it really was. Martin Luther turned the world upside down in the sixteenth century by proclaiming the Pauline gospel. Luther, who... Continue Reading