by Jeff Straub | Oct 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Again a WI judge has struck down the Clergyman’s Residency deduction. It was reversed on appeal before. If it takes affect, it only impacts Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. But who knows . . . it might change things for all clergymen in time. We’ll see what the...
by Brett Williams | Sep 25, 2017 | Philosophy, Theology, Uncategorized
Watch this interview from 1987. A wonderful explanation of Modernity’s moorings.
by Jeff Straub | Sep 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
A new article in CT suggests that many church leaders say you don’t have to tithe to your local church. You can split it between them and other good work. Ok, so maybe I will just give a tithe of my tithe to my local church. Ok, so because I don’t believe...
by Brett Williams | Sep 12, 2017 | Culture, Separation, Theology, Uncategorized
Helm critiques Dreher’s Benedict Option here. Worth a read. The presence of two kingdoms is a fundamental teaching of Jesus, not a political re-positioning for tactical advantage. The Benedict Option does not recognize it as mandatory. In Christianity...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 7, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Preaching, Uncategorized
I used to fret that I could remember very few of the sermons I had heard. Now I fret that I can remember very few of the sermons I preach. Still, I remember none of the details from the Latin lessons I took in school, and yet I can still pick up a book of Latin prose...
by Brett Williams | Sep 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Peter Gurry elaborates on Pius XII’s Divino Afflante Spiritu and shows similarities between Evangelical and Roman views of textual criticism and inerrancy. In the present day indeed this art, which is called textual criticism and which is used with great and...
