Is there a glimmer of hope?

An insider take on the current travails of the Church of England. Some insist there is a glimmer of hope for its future. This one, I think more honestly, says there is not.

Anti-intellectualism

This one takes a look at the legitimate and illegitimate accusations of anti-intellectualism that Evangelicals often hear and what, if anything, we might want to do about it.

My daughter plays competitive volleyball

I don’t usually link to twitter threads, but this is a good one on an issue that seems to reel around again and again. How do we navigate our children and their desire for competitive sports that fall on Sundays?

Does the doctrine of limited atonement undermine evangelism?

RC Sproul answers this one and, doing what RC Sproul always did so well, makes clear that not only does limited atonement not undermine evangelism, it actively helps it.

Do you want my opinion?

Here are some helpful thoughts on when and where to offer our opinion and why. ‘I’ve had to develop a kind of “rules of engagement” so that I respond appropriately when I’m ever asked or pressed to engage a hot cultural topic. Here’s how I parse it out.’

How I learnt to share my faith on the pickleball court

This one is really about the nuts and bolts of sharing our faith when we have joined secular clubs. I partly like it just because of the word pickleball.

From the archive: A tendency arising with such frequency I suspect a deeper problem

‘There is a certain sin that seems increasingly common in ministers that I find hard to understand how, given the tendency, they end up in pastoral ministry. In fact, I was chatting with someone else about this (in general) and they glibly noted, ‘there’s quite a lot of those guys about.’ The issue I’m talking about is those guys who just aren’t bothered with you, who have no interest in you, unless you are someone of note or worth (in their view) bothering with. There seems to be a disturbingly high number of these sorts of people in pastoral ministry.’