Month: November 2012
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right with God
My assignment this month for Our Daily Journey was to write a devotional from Ephesians, and it occurred to me that this might be a good time to mention the controversy around justification. I don’t know if anyone has ever written a devotional on the New Perspective on Paul (one of the Sprouls might have),…
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more bloopers!
I am in the middle of grading term papers, and thought I might share my five most recent student bloopers (I’m now up to 57!). 53) “God allows evil to exist although He can easily defeat goodness.” (Sure, but why would he want to?) 54) “The contrast view originated from felix culpa.” (This student…
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what a waste
I’m feeling a little sad about my paper at ETS yesterday. Someone had the bright idea to schedule a Friday afternoon full of papers, even though the conference effectively ended before noon. I walked past room after room of speakers gamely lecturing to empty chairs until I find my room, tucked away in the back…
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the morning after
Ten thoughts on yesterday’s election: 1. How long until the Billy Graham Association relists Mormonism as a cult, and a particularly disappointing one? 2. I wonder who is feeling more relieved today, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? 3. President Obama’s main argument for reelection was that he was not Mitt Romney. He succeeded in disqualifying…
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the intolerance of tolerance
I just saw this essay posted on Facebook. It’s a chilling explanation of how the religious leaders of our culture might justify the persecution of Christians as good and necessary. We shouldn’t be surprised by this, as our message is the same as Paul’s, and he was told by the Jews in Rome that “people…
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evil
I just visited Twitter to respond to a friend’s tweet, and after five minutes I think I contracted ADD. That site is nuts! In the spirit of our diminishing attention spans–Look, squirrel!–I will now attempt to say something meaningful about the problem of evil in an Our Daily Journey devotional that is approximately 300 words.…
Mike Wittmer 