Essay / Podcasts

Supporting Your Christian Blog (While Staying Saved): Wade Tonkin

Listen to Wade Tonkin of ChristianAffiliateMarketers.com give an overview of blog monetization strategies with an emphasis on how to generate financial support for yourself or you ministry from your blog while “staying saved.” He examines affiliate marketing, site sponsorships, Google Adsense and “Tipping” services to

Essay / Podcasts

Godbloggers and Hollywood: Mark Joseph

The role of the Godbloggers in the entertainment industry and why they should care: The internet has offered unparalleled opportunities for people of faith to break out of the religious ghetto and allow their ideas to be accessed by people who may not agree with

Essay / Podcasts

Renewed Minds Online: Ken Myers

Media do not merely carry content; they also create mentalities, sensibilities, and intuitions. As the medium of the internet has developed, few of its practitioners have considered how this new form of communication affects the larger ecosystem of culture and human interaction. We tend to

Essay / Podcasts

The Missional Church in the Internet Age: Andrew Jones

Dustin Steeve, Senior Director of GodblogCon 2008, opens the conference with an introduction of the conference, and GodblogCon’s opening speaker: Andrew Jones (tallskinnykiwi.com), social entrepreneur and mission consultant, discussed the phenomenal rise of faith blogging over the past decade and what it will take to

Essay / Theology

Forgives Your Iniquities, Heals Your Diseases (Psalm 103)

The 103rd Psalm comes pretty close to perfect praise. It seems to be built around the quotation of God’s own self-description from Exodus 34, The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast

Essay / Literature

Housekeeping

Like her biblical namesake, the Ruth of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (1980) is a sojourner among strangers. The almost misleading title of the novel suggests that the novel will be concerned with the daily habits that constitute and stabilize domestic life. Instead, the novel’s protagonists inhabit

Essay / Literature

Such Pride is Praise: Spenser’s Amoretti #5

RVDELY thou wrongest my deare harts desire, In finding fault with her too portly pride: the thing which I doo most in her admire, is of the world vnworthy most enuide. For in those lofty lookes is close implide, scorn of base things, & sdeigne

Essay / Art

The Communion of the Apostles

Joos van Wassenhove (a.k.a. Justus of Ghent) was a Renaissance Netherlandish painter who spent the greater part of his career in Italy. He became a member of the Antwerp Guild in 1460, but by 1464 had moved to Ghent. Sometime after 1468 he went to

Essay / Podcasts

"Where have you been? Where are you going?"

One of the most important Plato dialogues not included in the Torrey curriculum, the Phaedrus covers “everything under the sun.” Paul Spears and Fred Sanders join John Mark Reynolds in a Middlebrow discussion about the significance of the dialogue’s setting, virtual reality, and other important

Essay / Misc.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

The church is a visible reality. Sort of. Evangelicals frequently forget, neglect or disdain the notion of the church’s visibility. This is more often than not a function of an ecclesiological minimalism. We get antsy around institutions and formalities, and we rejoice in the simplicity

Essay / Theology

Even More Means, Even More Grace

When teaching about the means of grace, John Wesley habitually listed three things: prayer, Bible study, and the Lord’s supper. Those are the three in his best exposition of the doctrine of the means, and in many other places: GOD hath in Scripture ordained prayer,