Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How To Not Address Homosexuality As A Christian
I wouldn’t say there is a wide variety of legitimate Christian responses to homosexuality. However, this is definitely, definitely, not a Christian response. Whatever this guy (Charles Worley) is, he is not a faithful preacher of the Bible, and is voicing a response that is soaked in prejudice and hate rather than Christian love. The…
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The Drama of Doctrine: The Dramaturge
[This post is part of The Drama of Doctrine review series] Three weeks ago, we started our way through Kevin Vanhoozer’s The Drama of Doctrine. As Vanhoozer himself recaps for us: Part 1 presented the subject matter and subsequent form of theology in terms of a triune theo-drama of redemption. Theology is evangelical to the extent that…
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God is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology
Few Christians will ever read a systematic theology cover to cover. Part of this, no doubt, is because some of those same Christians don’t really do much reading at all. Why change that for such an acquired taste as systematic theology? Others are avid readers but are intimidated by either the size and scope of…
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Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Conclusion
[You’re finishing this review series because Bob Kellemen at RPM Ministries sent me a review copy of Equipping Counselors For Your Church!] Wednesday, we looked at the first two “laps” in Bob’s book, Envisioning and Enlisting. Yesterday, we covered laps 3 and 4, Equipping and Empowering. Today, I just have some summary thoughts on the book as a whole.…
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Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Equipping and Empowering
Yesterday, we started into Equipping Counselors For Your Church by looking at the opening two sections, Envisioning and Enlisting. In Bob’s race metaphor, those are the first two laps, so today we’ll look at the final two: Equipping and Empowering. This is more my particular niche, so after the good reminders from Bob about the need to develop…
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Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Envisioning and Enlisting
A while back, Bob Kellemen, who heads up RPM Ministries, sent me a copy of his latest book Equipping Counselors For Your Church. Monday’s review of The Biblical Counseling Movement was a kind of setup for this mini-series since Bob stands in line with the biblical counseling movement and is the Executive Director for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. This…
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The Drama of Doctrine: The Script
[This post is part of The Drama of Doctrine review series] Recently, we started our way through Kevin Vanhoozer’s The Drama of Doctrine. Last post, we looked at the drama, and this week we’re turning to the script. As Vanhoozer himself admits, this is the most technical part of the book, and because of that, some readers…
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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…
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4 Posts On Christian Filmmaking
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back when I posted on The Hunger Games, I’m going to start talking more about pop culture here, and in particular movies. Toward that end, I wanted to point your attention to three posts on The Gospel Coalition site as conversation starters. These posts are tailored more to…
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RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith
Before even getting into this review, I need to let you know the bargain you’re getting if you get this book. For less than $10 (a mere $8.90) you are getting content that I had to pay over $1000 to receive. Granted, I received the review copy of the book for free. But while I…
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