He was in most of my classes. He was also our pastor’s son. He clued me in on something in seventh grade that might have had a larger impact on my life than I might have expected. We were part of a Sunday School class of all boys (at least, that’s what I remember). I ...
While reading this book, I felt as though I once again had the privilege of being a student in John Frame's theology classes, the classes that so deeply influenced my thinking as a Westminster Seminary student forty years ago. But now the material has been enriched by a lifetime of ...
Because as Jesus would highlight in the racially charged parable of the Good Samaritan, our core identity is as neighbors, not ethnic groups, religious affiliations, social classes, or political parties. Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?” ...
I remember one class most vividly. It was one of our first classes where we were being given rules and regulations for being a chaplain in a hospital. We were asked, “If you get an emergency call on your pager, do you run to where the emergency is happening?” Scenes from...
Jesus preached. But his sermons are unlike ours. As a companion text for preaching classes, or a guide to pastors, the book explores how we can better proclaim the gospel of King Jesus by learning from his sermons and his unique approach to preaching. ...
The opposite of the Liberal Arts are the Servile Arts, those arts and skills related to “how to do a thing” and not “why to do a thing.” And historically this was the education given to servants, slaves, and the lower classes. If you examine the education students are commonly give...
Communal bonds among the oppressed are forged by a sense of victimhood and hostility toward the oppressor classes. The oppressors are allowed into the community only if they confess their privilege and guilt, engage in rituals of shame, and pay reparations in some form. In this way, the ...
some of which I have highlighted on this site (seehere), one perhaps stands above the rest in my mind. BiblicalTraining.org (BT) contains a wealth of free, online courses, taught by many first-class professors. With 73 free classes available, anyone can easily gain access to the basics ...
Like a party where people are divided, where they don’t all share alike, it’s a party without joy….So a society with quarrels, with social classes, can’t have a true banquet, a true party.’”[16] Cardenal, Solentiname, 78-79. “The prophet Amos had said that when the ...
“That unless their congregations could be exempted from the coercive power of the classes, and left to govern themselves in their own way, so long as they conducted them, selves with propriety toward the civil magistrate, they were resolved to suffer, or retire to some other place of the ...