More Photos from Biola…and Angelz

   I really wish I could listen live to Iron Sharpens Iron Tuesday, but I will be traveling. My dear friend Pastor Jim Handyside will be Chris Arnzen’s guest tomorrow. Of course, I call him my dear friend despite the fact that no one has pierced me through more thoroughly than dear Jim. After preaching at his church in Anniesland (just

Is lying in the pulpit not a “moral” failure? How did we get here in the evangelical church? Some thoughts.

OK, sure, I go to conferences…when I’m speaking at them. Other that that, I’m a homebody. Give me my routine and I’ll stick with it. But if I were near this one, I’d love to hear what will be said—in fact, since I am not nearby, I will hope for quickly released recordings! But for those who are able to

I hope to have the stream up and running between 5:45 and 6pm tonight, EDT for the debate on the sinlessness and immaculate conception of Mary. I need to conserve battery power, as I haven’t replaced the external battery I was using to extend its life (I need to do that asap!). The debate is taking place at a Roman

Early this AM (and when you are on PDT and you fly to EDT, 5AM is actually 2AM, so the term “early” takes on new meaning) I got up so I could head up to the graduation ceremonies of a small Christian school in upstate New York. It was an honor to speak, if only briefly, at the graduation. So

   I get a weekly e-mail from John Shelby Spong (no, it isn’t personal: it’s mass produced). The things people write to him are often utterly amazing to me. But today’s was most notable. Grimes G. Slaughter (that’s what it said, honestly) wrote: I have just been fired as a Jr. High Sunday School teacher at the First Presbyterian Church in

First, I’ve been hearing from a number of sources that Ergun Caner’s name has disappeared from the Fall teaching schedule at Liberty. This seems to lend a fair amount of support to the supposition that the year “teaching” contract was nothing more than “Here, take a year to look for another position.” Those who have been running about yelling “Exonerated!”

   Another “sneak peak” from my upcoming book, Pulpit Crimes:    If the purpose of the pulpit is to provide a place for God’s voice to be heard amongst His people, then surely one of the greatest, and sadly, most common crimes against the pulpit is when God’s voice is muddled, mixed, and muffled, by human tradition. It is indeed a great