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  • A Wrinkle in Time Among the Great Books

    A Wrinkle in Time Among the Great Books

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    Fred Sanders
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    Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time was published in 1962. A few years ago, several Torrey professors had a panel discussion about this strange book that had stayed in print for 50 years, finding new audiences all the time. Now that the Ava DuVernay-directed Disney movie version of it is out, we thought we’d post…

  • The King’s Business, Feb 1918

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    Fred Sanders
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    Now that Biola’s magazine The King’s Business is all digitally available online (hurrah!), I’ve begun a leisurely reading program, going through the Bible Institute’s history on a 100-year delay. The magazine began in 1910, and by 1918 it was under R.A. Torrey’s editorial hand and was up to a full 100 pages of material monthly. Each…

  • Achieving a Luminosity: Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Biblical Paintings

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    Fred Sanders
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    A few years ago I was looking for paintings to use as background images for a lecture. I wanted some biblical imagery that featured scenery over characters, added some beauty and atmosphere without taking over, and was all by one artist so that there weren’t jarring shifts of style. I figured I’d probably end up…

  • Life in the Trinity (Fairbairn Review)

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    Fred Sanders
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    The Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care has been going for ten years, and has recently become available as an academic journal through Sage Publications. If you’re not familiar with the journal, you should check it out, and if you’re in pastoral or spiritual formation practice, consider subscribing. It’s got a proven track record…

  • Al Geier at Torrey: Learning in Leisure

    Al Geier at Torrey: Learning in Leisure

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    Adam Johnson
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    One year out of college, I was invited to return to Biola to work for John Mark Reynolds, the founder and then director of the Torrey Honors Institute. One of the unquestionable highlights of the three years which followed have to do with certain memories and experiences with Dr. Al Geier, who taught classics at the University of…

  • Blessing of the Trinity (Sermon)

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    Fred Sanders
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    On Sunday Jan 28, I preached on Ephesians 1:3-14 at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. Tenth is a historic site for doctrinal and expository preaching, and I’m grateful to Pastor Liam Goligher for the invitation. It’s a 40-minute exposition of my love affair with Ephesians 1 and the blessed Trinity, which go together in a…

  • Christ Alone (Sermon)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Here is the video of a sermon I preached on Reformation Day 500 in Talbot Chapel at Biola. It’s got bacon, Reddit, semantic drift, a killer visual aid, some Bible thumping, karma, and the Trinity in it. It’s also about Ephesians.

  • Incarnation: How Appropriate

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    Fred Sanders
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    For at least three reasons, it seems like there’s nothing less appropriate than for God to become incarnate: Divinity is infinite; but humanity is finite, and those two things don’t go together by nature. God is simple, not put together from constituent parts; but for human nature, some assembly is required and batteries are not…

  • Tozer’s Meditations on the Trinity

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    Fred Sanders
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    A friend recently gave me a copy of this new devotional book, Meditations on the Trinity: Beauty, Mystery, and Glory in the Life of God, by A.W. Tozer. A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) wrote a lot of books, but if you’re a fan, you’re probably thinking, “He never wrote a book called Meditations on the Trinity!”…

  • Christmas Thought

    Christmas Thought

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    Joe Henderson
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      December is always a strange time of year for Christians at a college. With the end of the semester approaching, it’ a very busy time in the academic calendar when the work can begin to seem unendurable and our energy is almost spent. It’s also Advent, the time in the Church calendar when we’re…

  • Union with Christ in the Gospels (Brian Hedges)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Here’s an endorsement I wrote for Brian Hedges‘ new book, With Jesus: Finding Your Place in the Story of Christ (Shepherd Press, 2017): When we think about the Christian life as union with Christ, we often turn to Paul’s letters where the doctrine is explained so clearly. But this book equips us to go one…

  • Didaktikos Currents: Classical Theism

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    Fred Sanders
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    Faithlife (maker of Logos Bible Software) has started a new print journal of theological education: Didaktikos. It’s edited by Douglas Estes; click on through and see how to subscribe. In the first issue, I wrote a little report (in the “Currents” section) to bring readers up to date on the discussion of classical theism. It’s only…