Americans Are Exploring New Ways of Experiencing God

From Barna Research

‘Americans are in a new age of exploration, deploying new approaches to marriage, communications, sexuality, education, and more. According the results from a new nationwide survey by The Barna Group, the “and more” includes how people pursue their faith and how they choose to relate to God and other people of faith.
What [...]

The Patriot’s Bible and Justified Torture

Greg Boyd wrote an interesting piece on the subject of the Patriot’s Bible and Justified Torture. Give it a read if you can. Let me give you a sneak preview. Boyd writes,
“The Patriot’s Bible consists of hundreds of commentaries on various patriotic themes, ranging in length from one sentence to four pages, inserted at various points [...]

Evangelicals and Torture

A recent survey conducted by Pew Research Center  reports how Evangelical Christians respond to the use of torture:
“More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to [...]

The Gospel Coalition 2009 Online

The sermons/lectures given at the Gospel Coalition 2009 event are now available online. Below I list the individuals and lectures associated with their names.  Enjoy!

Bryan Chapell

Preach the Word

K. Edward Copeland

Shadowlands: Pitfalls and Parodies of Gospel-Centered Ministry

Mark Driscoll

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

Tim Keller

The Grand Demythologizer: The Gospel and Idolatry

C.J. Mahaney

N/A

John Piper

Feed the Flame of [...]

Dave Black on Theological Education

Prof. Dave Black suggets that theological educations needs to be “missions oriented.” Here’s a draft of his forthcoming book (“The Jesus Paradigm“ ):

A New Paradigm for Theological Education?
As I have said, in the last few years God has been working on my priority system. You see, rather than seeking status or privilege my goal now is [...]

D.A. Carson discusses Christ & Culture on Laus Deo

Laus Deo is a radio program hosted by Paul Wolf. Dr. Wolf is Professor  and Chair of NT program at Southwestern Seminary. Last month he interviewed D.A. Carson on the relationship between Christ  and Culture. More recent programs include the following:
The Nature of the Human Soul With Christian New Testament Scholar Joel B. Green
We [...]