Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My Ministry Internship
[This post is part of the What Are We Up To In Ministry? series] When Ali and I first knew we were going to move back to Florida, we were faced with a decision. I had gone to Dallas Seminary, not so much with the intention of being a lead pastor of a church, but with the…
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Where The Conflict Really Lies
Continuing the trend this week, I’m looking forward to reading Alvin Plantinga’s Where the Conflict Really Lies. Although I haven’t too much of Plantinga’s work, I’m probably at least indirectly influenced by him. My philosophy professor at Dallas, who also was my thesis adviser, did his Ph.D work at Notre Dame, and so was not…
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The Other Elephant in The Room
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Spoken Word: Sex, Marriage, and Fairytales
You might have seen Jefferson Bethke’s original video “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus” at some point over the last couple of weeks (for an interview on the background context, read this). It generated its fair share of buzz, which eventually led him to CBS Morning Show. Here is his follow up video: (For some background…
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Rental Christianity
As I mentioned earlier, one of the Big 12 books I’m working through this year is William Shedd’s Dogmatic Theology. So far, it’s been enjoyable, but I really haven’t gotten into much of Shedd’s actual thought. I did however run across this anecdote about David Hume in the reading this week: According to Johnson (Boswell’s…
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God With Us: Divine Condescension and The Attributes of God
If you’re looking to do some heavy lifting this year in your personal reading, this book might be a great place to start. I was actually surprised and the density of God With Us, but then again I should have been surprised since it’s written by K. Scott Oliphint. It’s heavy plodding pretty much all…
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9Marks Titles on Sale at Westminster
I’ve reviewed and interacted with a couple of 9Marks titles on here (Am I Really A Christian? and Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church). I’m thinking about requesting the newest release as well (Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons) once I’ve got another available from Crossway. Westminster though is running a sale on all…
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John Frame’s Advice For Young Theologians #21-30
As I explained in the original post, these pieces of advice come from “Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian” in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame. Reflecting back on his career in teaching and his life of ministry, he offers off the cuff in an interview 30 nuggets of advice. Here’s…
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Book of the Week: The Evolution of Adam
Conveniently, the book this week is Peter Enns newest one, The Evolution of Adam. It provides a nice follow up to last week’s book (which is far more rigorous when it comes to Genesis) and will no doubt probably prove to be as much if not more controversial than his Inspiration and Incarnation (at least…
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My Epic “Lower Still”
feat. guest vocals by Micah Boyce of So Long Forgotten Look, He’s covered in dirt, and the blood of His mother has mixed with the earth, and she’s just a child who’s throbbing in pain from the terror of birth by the light of a cave. Now they’ve laid that small Baby where creatures come eat like a…
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