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  • Eschatology at EPCOT (Or How I Spent Saturday Not Watching Sports)

    If you don’t know, this is SpaceShip Earth. It’s actually a ride at EPCOT about human progress. It’s kind of evolutionary, but once you get out of the cave it’s pretty interesting. It’s also the symbol of the park, much like Cinderella’s Castle in Magic Kingdom. After my last post, Ali reminded me that EPCOT…

  • Brief Reflections From Last Week

    This past week, I was a volunteer in the bookstore at The Gospel Coalition national conference. You might have picked that up already from Twitter, but just in case, now you know. You might have also seen the partial book review post that I hadn’t quite finished before its scheduled post date arrived. That review…

  • We Need Your Help!

    A couple of weeks ago, I explained a little bit about what we’ve been up to in ministry and how I’m joining staff with SHIFT. I’ve spent the time since then getting organized and now wanted to offer a sign up form that you can use to receive our newsletter. Just to be upfront, this…

  • Magic Kingdom Mondays?

    Normally Mondays are for music, but I figured I’d talk about the Magic Kingdom since that also starts with M. It would be pretty easy to Jesus Juke enjoying a trip to the Magic Kingdom over the weekend in light of Easter. I mean, the resurrection vindicates Jesus as King, and well, you can put…

  • What We’ve Been Up To In Ministry

    Way back when, you might remember a brief blog series called What Are We Up To In Ministry: My Ministry Internship High School Boys Bible Study: Ephesians Church at The YMCA SHIFT One Day: Apologetics Seminar Baptisms in the Swimming Pool Leading a Small Group ????? That was the Table of Contents, which as you…

  • A Pre-Ph.D Reading List of Sorts

    I mentioned on Monday that I had withdrawn from Ph.D studies at SBTS. It wasn’t actually official until today when I received the e-mail from the registrar, but everything on my end was done back at the beginning of December. Rather than fully explain what I’m planning to do long term when it comes to Ph.D…

  • Whatever Happened to Ph.D Studies?

    Roughly a year ago, I announced my intention to pursue Ph.D studies at SBTS. At the end of February, I took the entrance exams, and then mid-April, received an acceptance letter. Since then, I haven’t said much about it, and so depending on how attentive you are to my blogging and Twitter feed, you might…

  • If I Were Going To #ETS2014

    Sad to say, once again I’ll be missing ETS this year. If you’re not familiar, ETS is the Evangelical Theological Society, and their yearly meeting is every November, the week before Thanksgiving. I became a member of the society my final year at Dallas and was actually able to present part of my thesis at…

  • A Bad Reason to Want to Review Books

    [This post is part of Reviewing The Life of Book Reviewing] I think before really talking about techniques or trade secrets when it comes to book reviews, it’s worth asking why. Why would you want to review books? I think of several reasons, but if it’s something you’re going to make a habit of, you…

  • New Series: Reviewing The Life of Book Reviewing

    For a while, I’ve been thinking about doing a series on book reviewing. It’s something I’ve been known to do in semi-prolific proportions. It’s also something that my interest and capacity for is waning. Book reviewing was a way of keeping my free time under guardians and managers until the date of resuming school. Since…