Jason

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Knowledge nation

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I’ve been thinking a lot about canonicity and Christian education in the past two weeks. Here’s a side discussion off of what I’ve been reading about. Futurist magazines in the 1950s promised us flying cars and space travel as a commodity. Sixty years later we are no closer to the actualization of that dream (unless you live in rural China). However, knowledge itself has become a commodity. Let me explain what I mean. You can

A thousand thanks

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O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of his grace! Charles Wesley wrote thousands of hymns and was certainly prolific in his praise. He wrote this hymn to commemorate the renewal of his faith after a crisis of doubt. The line "O for a thousand tongues…" is powerful, because it reflects our limited ability to express the unlimited value of Christ and

Answering questions on the current crisis

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This morning's post raised some significant questions which I feel deserve a thoughtful answer. In this follow-up post, I'll try to address some of the concerns that were raised. An unfair assessment? I agree that my assessment of the movement had serious implications. I can also see how it could come across as unfair and/or "pompous." So I'll try to give a fuller explanation of why I wrote what I wrote. Additionally, I concede that

The current crisis in Fundamentalism

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There is a crisis in Fundamentalism today and it is a crisis of credibility. To boil it down, generally, the young men don't want what the older men are giving. The older men want to pour their lives into training young men for ministry, but the brightest and best of the young men are walking away—not from God, but from Fundamentalism (or at least the kind of Fundamentalism that the older men are offering). As