Month: February 2008
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Biblical Fasting
Fasting is a biblical practice, but it’s biblical in a peculiar way. It’s presupposed on page after page, but never explained. “When you fast” is a typical beginning for a biblical sentence on the subject, and it leads modern readers to wonder if we missed a page somewhere back in the Old Testament —maybe in…
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Those Top Twelve Books, Online For Free
Last week I listed the books we use for our semester On Knowing God, which amount to a Top Twelve Theology Books list from the whole of Christian history. A reader sent me a follow-up note pointing out that all but one of the books is available online at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. While…
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On Knowing God: The Top Twelve Books
In the Torrey Honors Institute, we teach an 8-unit class called “On Knowing God.” Following our great books curriculum and a Socratic pedagogy, we give students a one-semester introduction to the classic Christian texts. In fact, when the faculty designed this intensely theological semester, we realized we had a chance to assign, along with the…
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General Education: Pursuing Truth and Understanding at the University
America’s leading universities have lost their way. They no longer educate children to be good, follow truth, or acquire knowledge; this is a significant problem. It is important for students applying to college or parents looking to make a significant four to five year educational investment in the life of their child to understand this…
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On True Repentance
Some time ago, I was having coffee with a friend when our conversation turned to the topic of repentance. Neither one of us could really remember a time in our Christian lives when we were so sorry for our sins that we threw ourselves at God’s mercy, repented of our sins, and begged for God’s…