by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Civility, Culture, Rhetoric, Sacred and Mundane
Jon D. Payne at Reformation 21 talks about why our words matter. To be sure, the problem of unwholesome speech is not new. It’s been around for ages. I remember on one occasion, while I was young, my parents washed my mouth out with soap after I had used a bad...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Civility, Education
On January 10 the National Association of Scholars published a report alleging that American universities are teaching civics in such a way as to undermine American civilization. On January 17 Stanley Fish responded in the Chronicle of Higher Education, arguing that...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | How the Left Thinks
Soul Force is one of the most important organizations that “works to end the political and religious oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people through relentless nonviolent resistance.” The organization has published its...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | Christianity, Evangelicalism, Separation, The Gospel, Theology
What is a gospel issue? How do we recognize one when we see it? D. A. Carson addresses the problem in an insightful essay for Themelios. Here’s one side of the story; it’s worth reading the other: [B]ecause of the complex entanglements of theology, with a...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 25, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading
[T]he pro-Nicene theologians quickly developed what we might call a “two-state hermeneutic.” Their description tended to draw on the language of Philippians 2 to insist that some texts spoke of the Son in the form of God, while others spoke of him in the form of a...
