In Praise of Ordinary Men, Part Two: John Javaux

The Fundamentalists and Billy Graham

Some of you new students may not understand just exactly why we take the position we take in regard to Billy Graham’s ecumenical evangelism…. Billy Graham and I have been for many years personal friends. This is not a personal difference between my father and...
In Praise of Ordinary Men, Part Two: John Javaux

Freedom of the Will?

Imagine a man who has, somewhere deep within his cranium, a pair of dice. Every time he has to make a decision, a spasm in his brain casts these dice. How the dice roll is what determines the choice. In other words, every decision is pure, random chance. Would it make...
In Praise of Ordinary Men, Part Two: John Javaux

Mandate?

Genesis 1:28 is sometimes called the cultural mandate: “And God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth...
In Praise of Ordinary Men, Part Two: John Javaux

Liberalism Is Alive and Well

As I sat and listened to the talk, I could well have been in the early years of the twentieth century listening to an old liberal like George Burman Foster or Shailer Mathews, noted modernists of the University of Chicago. Though Foster and Mathews have long been...