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Wisdom and Resolutions: Redeem Your Seasons from the Tyranny of the Urgent this New Year

Grant Van Leuven
Jan 31, 2022
Lately, I’ve been swamped with temporary though important projects consuming my time and attention. Feeling guilty about delaying or limiting focus on more regular needs, I recalled a booklet in a seminary class: Tyranny of the Urgent, by Charles E. Hummel. The primary lesson from this brief...

Hamu Lujonza Kaddu Mukasa and the Early Church in Uganda

Simonetta Carr
Feb 16, 2021
Hamu Lujonza Kaddu Mukasa and the Early Church in Uganda In 1882, twelve-year-old Hamu Lujonza Kaddu Mukasa, son of a chief in the Buganda Kingdom, was sent to the court of King Mutesa I to serve as a page. There, his life began to take a course he had never imagined. From Mukasa to Hamu At court,...

Georgi Vins and the Christian Resistance to Soviet Religious Persecution

Simonetta Carr
Oct 20, 2020
Georgi Vins and the Christian Resistance to Soviet Religious Persecution On April 26, 1979, 50-year-old Georgi Petrovich Vins was woken up in his cell in the labor camp where he had been serving sentence for four years. He was asked to change into his own clothes, flown to Moscow, then told that he...

Olaudah Equiano – Waking Up Christians to the Evils of Slavery

Simonetta Carr
May 26, 2020
Olaudah Equiano – Waking Up Christians to the Evils of Slavery Olaudah Equiano described his 1745 place of birth as “a charming vale, named Essaka” [1] in the kingdom of Benin (in today’s southeastern Nigeria). His father occupied an important place among the Igbo people, and was himself a slave...

Why Are There Never Enough Parking Spaces at the Prostate Clinic?

Carl Trueman Articles
Jan 4, 2009
One of the modern shibboleths of the evangelical church, particularly the evangelical church in the West, is that of culture. One must be interested in culture, or one is simply irrelevant. Books and organizations abound on Christian approaches to various aspects of modern culture; there are...

Why Are There Never Enough Parking Spaces at the Prostate Clinic?

Carl Trueman Articles
Jan 4, 2009
One of the modern shibboleths of the evangelical church, particularly the evangelical church in the West, is that of culture. One must be interested in culture, or one is simply irrelevant. Books and organizations abound on Christian approaches to various aspects of modern culture; there are...

Some Reflections by a Christian College Professor

William B. Evans Articles
Jun 19, 2008
In my recent travels and conversations, the topics of Dr. Peter Enns' book and the author's relationship with Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia have come up repeatedly. Dr. Enns is the author of Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament (Baker,...

Some Reflections by a Christian College Professor

William B. Evans Articles
Jun 19, 2008
In my recent travels and conversations, the topics of Dr. Peter Enns' book and the author's relationship with Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia have come up repeatedly. Dr. Enns is the author of Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament (Baker,...

Old Opium Meets the New

Carl Trueman Articles
Jun 7, 2008
Well, who would have thought that it would be Pope Benedict XVI who provided one of the strangest `only in America , folks' moments of recent years. Yet it is undoubtedly true that he has done so. Benedict is, of course, a pope whose medieval predilections, whether theological, liturgical, or...

Old Opium Meets the New

Carl Trueman Articles
Jun 7, 2008
Well, who would have thought that it would be Pope Benedict XVI who provided one of the strangest `only in America , folks' moments of recent years. Yet it is undoubtedly true that he has done so. Benedict is, of course, a pope whose medieval predilections, whether theological, liturgical, or...