Rebooting Theses 95

I sat down in front of a computer running Windows 95 in order to troubleshoot the network connection. In spite of my efforts to convince the owner to upgrade to a newer system, or at least a newer operating system, they remained stiff-necked against any change. That wasn’t a big deal anyway, so [...]

Putting the X back in XMas

It’s become an annual tradition for me to rant about the abbreviation “Xmas” which many a Christian mistaken believes is “taking the Christ out of Christmas.” The real beauty of that misunderstanding is that there’s times when it’s true. Many a non-Christian will toss out the ol’ “Xmas” because it’s not only [...]

Baptist Taboos

My Old Testament professor broke one of the great Baptist taboos on Tuesday night, when he made some comments on the Biblical expression “Word of God.” He rightly pointed out that the term in the text cannot be understood to refer to the scriptures as we know them, and have since many of the [...]

Old Testament Studies

My O.T. prof pointed to me to his colleague’s site for some great information that deals with much of the scholarship related to Tanak studies. Here’s the link to the course materials:
http://biblical-studies.ca/REL102/schedule.html
Thanks to Professor Williams for putting his materials online. Thanks also to Barry Bandstra who’s made his introductory text, Reading The Old [...]

Why I’m a Calvinist: Part I

We go by many names - Augustine, Calvinist, Reformed, Tulip-sniffers - but it all adds up to the same thing. Today, Calvinists are a minority within modern evangelical protestantism, but such wasn’t always the case. At the height of the Protestant Reformation, we were the primary voices crying out for a return to [...]