Exploring the history of evangelical and Baptist faith traditions.
Baptist history is one of my research interests, having grown up Baptist. My great-grandparents ministered in the German Baptist movement in the U.S. and Canada. I’m exploring what my spiritual heritage reveals about evangelical movements within different cultural contexts. The German Baptists in North America (1924), by Albert John Ramaker, is the first book in […]
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A church in the northeast is up to good stuff lately. I accidentally came across Highrock Covenant Church last year when either Beth Allison Barr (The Making of Biblical Womanhood) or Kristin Du Mez (Jesus and John Wayne) posted on Twitter about speaking for a series on American Evangelicalism. I had been pondering my faith
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I grew up on missionary stories. My bookshelf was full of them, and they inspired my dreams that, one day, I would follow in the footsteps of these godly heroes. Foreign mission work was a rare avenue open to women in my conservative Christian world, and I had no doubt God had called me to
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I recently read Christian Smith’s book The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture (2012) published by Brazos Press. It critiques a form of biblical interpretation that too often treats the Bible in a wooden and rule book fashion, thereby diminishing the richness of Scripture. Having grown up in
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In Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament. Peter Enns proposes an incarnational model for understanding how the Bible was inspired by God. Just as Jesus is 100% divine and 100% human, so also the Bible is both divine and human (17). Jesus was “God with us.” Even though he is
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For convenient access, I have collected the five blog posts on inerrancy here: Part I: What Is Biblical Inerrancy? Part II: Biblical Inerrancy Debate: Al Mohler and Peter Enns Part III: Biblical Inerrancy Debate: Michael Bird, Kevin Vanhoozer, and John Franke Part IV: Does the Bible Have Errors? Part V: Would You Sign the Chicago
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This post is the first in a series of five on the topic of inerrancy. “The Bible is inerrant.” What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you read that statement? What emotions arise? Do you respond with “Amen! Preach it sister!” Do you feel an aversion or objection? Or, perhaps, you
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