The Scriptorium Daily

Category: Blog

  • Who Says We've Got Trinity Problems?

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    Fred Sanders
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    Over at Justin Taylor’s blog, Robert Sagers points out that all the back issues of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology are now online. That journal has had some good editorial vision in the last 13 years, so having every article just a .pdf away is a great resource. One of my favorite moments in…

  • Giant Chocolate Bunny: Siedell's God in the Gallery

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    Fred Sanders
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    My review of Dan Siedell‘s book God in the Gallery just came out in the latest issue of Cultural Encounters. The same issue also has a short essay by Siedell, extending and updating some of his ideas about art and religion since the 2008 publication of his book. In fact, the whole issue of Cultural…

  • How Mark Begins His Gospel

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    Fred Sanders
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    Where does the story of Jesus begin? Mark opens with “the beginning of the gospel,” as written in Isaiah. Not with a genealogy going back to Abraham (as Matthew), not with an author’s preface, the conception of John the Baptist, or a genealogy going back to Adam (as Luke), and not with high-flown theological dicta…

  • Anywhere But the Suburbs

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    Matt Jenson
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    There are occasional days when I heartily affirm with Randy Newman: ‘I love LA!’ More often, I hate it. On Tuesday morning I flew back to Los Angeles, with its cars and concrete, its hurry and hustle and hassle. I had been in the Southeast for two weeks – with good friends in Nashville and…

  • Mark Shaw on Christian Revival

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    Greg Peters
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    I imagine most Christians would agree that they would love to see revival come to their local church and, more so, to the worldwide Christian church. In fact, there are still a handful of churches out there that schedule a weekend or week of “revival” meetings each year. Yet most of us have likely never…

  • Easily Edified, like Simeon

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    Fred Sanders
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    As a college student, Charles Simeon had to attend chapel services. Like all mandatory chapel requirements, this one ran the risk of being an open invitation for students to go through the motions, with no real mental or spiritual involvement. To make matters worse, the chapel services Simeon had to attend were also events at…

  • Charles Simeon of Cambridge

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    Fred Sanders
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    The history of the church is filled with great pastors and teachers. Even if you skip over the church fathers, the medievals, and the reformers, confining yourself to recent times–say these past two and a half centuries– there are more than enough great theologians and devotional writers to keep you busy, well-fed, informed, and inspired.…

  • Handley Moule was Very Cool

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    Fred Sanders
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    H. C. G. (that’s Handley Carr Glyn) Moule was born in 1841 and died on May 8, 1920. He served as the Bishop of Durham from 1901-1920. He was an acute scholar and a powerful communicator. He wrote great Bible commentaries, an outline of Christian doctrine, and many sermons and poems. When the editors of…

  • What is the What: Sudan, Manute Bol and Activistic Art

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    Matt Jenson
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    Last week, Manute Bol died. The tallest and thinnest man in the NBA, he was a shot-blocker on stilts, an amusing presence, really, a trivia answer. He was also, it turns out, a very good man. Bol grew up in southern Sudan, a largely Christian region in an on-again, off-again civil war with the largely…

  • Year of the Priest

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    Greg Peters
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    Last year I wrote a blog about the “Year of the Priest” called by the Roman Catholic Church that began on June 19, 2009. I suggested that it would be a good idea for evangelical pastor-priests to also take a year to reflect on their calling and commitments as “servants of the servants of God”…

  • Gerald McDermott’s The Great Theologians

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    Greg Peters
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    Every now and then I run across a book where I say, “Wow, that will be really helpful for members of my church.” Gerald McDermott’s The Great Theologians: A Brief Guide (InterVarsity, 2010) is one of those books. As a theologians trained in church history I think that every Christian needs to know the history…

  • Prayer for the Class of 2010

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    Fred Sanders
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    (Here is a prayer I said for the graduates of the Torrey Honors Institute at today’s commencement) Father God, We bring these graduates before you today and we present them to you. We do not present them for your inspection, because we know you have already fully inspected them, because you are the knower of…