As of today, I am fully underway in pursuit of a Doctor of Theology Degree at Northwest Nazarene University. These past couple of months I have been working on the introductory course (“Introduction to Online Theological Research”). Today I begin my first “real” course: Theological Method and Contextualization. This is why I have not made […]
I recently read The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr. I will keep the review brief: I did not like it. Oh, there were things of value in the book: helpful truths and reminders, important insights, ideas worth some further thought. Yet all of these can be found in better books with less problems. My main […]
This Christmas my wife gave me one of my favorite Christmas presents of all time: the complete set of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. I cannot remember receiving a Christmas or birthday gift that moved me so close to tears! Over the past couple of years, Barth has become a helpful and influential voice in my thinking […]
The Local Pastor 