Engaging God's World
On Monday, September 20th, I walked into the Davis House prepared to discuss Cornelius Plantinga Jr.’s book, Engaging God’s World. I took my seat and Dr. John Basie began the session by making the point that there are four main biblical moments: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation. Growing up in Sunday school, I felt like I…
Helping out Tornado Victims
As most of you know, last Wednesday’s storms hit very close to home for us. Much of Hamilton, Pine Mountain Valley and Lagrange were pretty severely damaged. Houses were destroyed and hundreds of were trees thrown around and uprooted. As a class, we all really wanted to do something to help, I mean that’s what…
Christians, Power, & Calling
This week Trent Wilbanks and I are team teaching our final module for the academic year. Cultural transformation is the topic, and Andy Crouch’s book Culture Making is the backbone text. Concept of the week? Power. Crouch says that cultural power is “the ability to successfully propose a new cultural good.” As it turns out,…
