Her name is Karen Jobes and she is emeritus professor of New Testament and exegesis at Wheaton College. Here is Stefani McDade at Christianity Today: The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) has instated its first female president in 75 years. Karen...
Just thinking out loud, folks: Here is the entire tweet: Having just come from ETS, I’ve come to believe that winsomeness might not be quite at the center of the bullseye for what besets so much of evangelicalism. I do...
Dean Detloff, a native of Alpena, Michigan (a small northeastern Michigan town on Lake Huron), reflects on how the late Stanley Grenz influenced his intellectual growth. It’s a great little piece. A taste: I moved to Grand Rapids from Alpena...
Baird Tipson is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College. This interview is based on his new book, Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write Inward Baptism? BT: The two and a half...
Evangelical theologian J.I. Packer has died. He was 93. Here is a taste of Leland Ryken’s obituary at Christianity Today: When Christianity Today conducted a survey to determine the top 50 books that have shaped evangelicals, Packer’s book Knowing God came in fifth. His fame...
WARNING: This post gets deep into the weeds of my evangelical divinity school experience. Several of you have asked me for the words to “So Many Views,” the parody song I co-wrote about my experience at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School...
Adriaan Neele is the Director of the Doctoral Program and Professor of Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, Before Jonathan Edwards: Sources of New England Theology (Oxford University Press, 2019). JF: What inspired...
A few years ago I wrote an essay in a book, edited by Jared Burkholder and David Cramer, titled, The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism. Since I self-identify as an evangelical, work at a college with...
Robert Caldwell is Associate Professor of Church History at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, Theologies of the American Revivalists: From Whitefield to Finney (IVP Academic, 2017). JF: What led you to write Theologies...
What is an evangelical? We have visited this question a few times before here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. (See here and here and here and here and here). I have taught a course on the topic and devoted an entire...
