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  • The Mohler-Chapell Interchange on Genesis 1 At TGC

    So, yesterday I was sitting in the first round of workshops at The Gospel Coalition National Conference here in Orlando and tweeted this: I think Bryan Chapell just out debated Al Mohler on whether or not Genesis 1 teaches 6 24hr days (Mohler wouldn’t concede though) — Nate Claiborne (@nateclaiborne) April 9, 2013 I got…

  • Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers & Skeptics Find Faith

    Alister McGrath is professor of theology, ministry, and education and head of the Centre for Theology, Religion, and Culture at King’s College, London, and president of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. He’s written more books than I care to list here, but this is actually the second recently published book of his that I’ve…

  • Mapping The Origins Debate: 6 Models of The Beginning of Everything

    Gerald Rau is founder and chief editor at Professional English International, Inc. Before that, he was an adjunct professor of biology at Wheaton and Trinity Christian College in Illinois. He has a doctorate in plant breeding from Cornell (12), and a master’s degree in science education focused on philosophy of science (13). With that background,…

  • Doctrine: Creation

    As part of the on-going review series of Doctrine, here are my thoughts on this particular chapter: Creation: God Makes. Way back when I was studying all this in seminary, I did a blog series on Genesis. It’s very detailed, and as you can see, I didn’t get past chapter 2: Thoughts on Genesis Genesis:…

  • Why You (Usually) Can’t Persuade Someone They’re Wrong

    I recently finished Mapping The Origins Debate by Gerald Rau (which is excellent by the way). My review is forthcoming, but I wanted to go ahead an highlight a hugely important point that Rau makes, almost as an afterthought. After presenting 6 models of the beginning of everything (not one by one, but through different…

  • Genesis And Christian Theology

    Genesis has almost always been fascinating to me. Part of it I’m sure is its mysterious nature, reaching back to the dawn of time like it does. I’ve just always found the early chapters of Genesis intriguing. Now that I’m up and running with Eerdmans, I noticed they released a collection of essays earlier this…

  • The Most Uncomfortable Argument Against Common Ancestry

    Consider these two statements: Why sex evolved is in fact one of evolution’s greatest mysteries. We should be deeply suspicious of speculations that come unaccompanied by hard evidence. Both of these come from Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution Is True. The first is in the chapter “How Sex Drives Evolution,” (155) and the second is from the…

  • 3 Lessons I Learned Being A Science Teacher

    Though I didn’t mention it much on here, I spent the last year teaching science at a private Christian high school. Luckily that did not involve chemistry (beyond the occasional subbing gig), but it did involve teaching Biology to freshman and Anatomy & Physiology to juniors (and one senior). This itself involved what is probably one of…

  • A Shot of Faith To The Head: Be A Confident Believer In the Age of Cranky Atheists

    You’re reading this book review because of John Piper, believe it or not. If John Piper hadn’t have invited Doug Wilson to the 2009 Desiring God National Conference, I might not have ended up subscribed to his blog (cleverly titled Blog and Mablog). Having not done that, I probably wouldn’t have seen his blurb about…

  • The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context

    On first glance, I imagine many readers would find this book either immediately attractive or immediately repulsive. The reasons for this are either you’re a) interested in biblical counseling so the title grabs you or b) you’ve had a bad experience with someone promoting “nouthetic” counseling and decided you wanted to have nothing to do…