Author: Fred Sanders
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Augustine's Two Spiritual Laws
Bill Bright put a simplified account of the gospel into an easily-communicated form called the Four Spiritual Laws. Those laws, as stated in the classic booklet that has been used for so much evangelism, are: 1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life. 2. Man is sinful and separated from God.…
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Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective on the "Converse with Scholars" Program
This Thursday (March 6 ’08) I’ll be the guest on the Converse with Scholars web show hosted by Reclaiming the Mind ministries. I’ll be talking with the hosts and the live web audience about my 2007 book, Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective. You’ll be able to listen to the show anytime from their site, but if…
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18 Cats in 5 Minutes
Phoebe Age Five recently accepted the challenge to draw 18 cats as fast as she could. She completed the task in well under five minutes, and the result is a set of cat drawings with a striking range of compositional choices. In drawing, composition is the art of arranging visual elements on a page. It…
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The Bible Women
The story of Biola’s founding is easily told as the story of Big Men doing Big Things for their Big God. I’ve told the story that way myself, because it’s true: Biola’s three most important founders were a civil war veteran oil tycoon (Stewart), a highly-educated world-traveling evangelist (Torrey), and an urban pastor who could…
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The Secret’s Out: Great Books Education at Biola
Anthony Esolen has posted a blog entry over at Mere Comments regarding his recent visit to the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University: I’ve visited a lot of campuses in the last few years, including Princeton and Yale, and at only one school, the much maligned Patrick Henry College in Virginia, did I encounter quite…
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Biola at 100: L.A. Times
2008 is Biola University’s centennial year, and this week saw the actual birthday. LA Times reporter Tiffany Hsu did a fine write-up of the celebration, and explained to Los Angeles what this Bible Institute-turned-into-a-university thing is all about. I’m quoted briefly. Click on through for the story, or see below. Biola evolves but stays the…
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Anthony Esolen at Biola
On Tuesday Feb. 25, Dr. Anthony Esolen spoke to the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. Dr. Esolen, professor of English at Providence College, is best known for his translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Esolen’s edition prints the original medieval Italian verse on the left-hand pages, with his vigorous English translation on facing right-hand pages,…
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*Give Your Life to Mani*
Recent Converts! Are You Confused? Does your inquiring mind raise questions the authoritarian church just can’t answer? . *** ASK MANI! *** . He Can Explain True Christianity To You! **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** ALL THAT IS … is light and darkness. But in the beginning, the King of Darkness smelled something desirable…
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The Book of Biola: Rooted for One Hundred Years
Here is what I said (as best I can recall) at the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, Feb 22 for the grand opening of Biola’s heritage room. The event was also the official release of the 100th anniversary commemorative book Rooted for One Hundred Years. I got to speak just after Dietrich Buss, history professor emeritus.…
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Happy Birthday, George Washington
Popular internet artist Freddy Age 7, in a rare signed artwork, pays homage to the first president of the United States (see Freddy’s extensive online art gallery here). Patriotic images, especially ones inspired by national holidays, are a staple of this young artist’s ouevre. This image features a George Washington figure recognizable by his white…
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How To Make Cartoons
Cartooning is fun, and anybody who’d like to try their hand at it should probably go buy Scott McCloud’s excellent book on it. But if you don’t want to spend the money on McCloud’s far-reaching description of comics technique, here’s a fun free intro: Barnacle Press has a “Pocket Cartoon Course” from the 1940s available…
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Sinning Like Sheep
In Handel’s Messiah, the composer teaches theology through music. It may seem unlikely that Handel himself could be doing any teaching in this composition, since the text of Messiah is entirely composed of Bible verses, and even the choice and arrangement of them was the work of somebody else –the librettist Charles Jennens. How could…