Scripture and Decision-Making
In a world filled with test-tube babies, drones, and physician-assisted suicide, Christian ethics can become unpredictable, with positions turning irrelevant as soon as they are broadcasted. This dilemma causes us to ask, how do we move from the ancient text of the Bible to contemporary ethical issues? Do the Old and New Testaments give answers for ethical dilemmas in public policy, genetics, creation care, and politics? While moral...
Fighting on the Wrong Ground: Epistemological Missteps
I realized I was getting nowhere with this guy. It was my first year of youth ministry and one of my students, sly grin and all, had just asked how I knew the Bible was true. I tried to explain that prophecies have been fulfilled, lives have been changed, science has never proven the Bible wrong, and, like G.K. Chesterton I found that the Bible explained everything in my experience so well as to be inescapably true. However, my...
Does God Care About Justice?
Recently in the news, stories came out about two separate men (both now 93 years of age) who are being indicted for a combined 470,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp.[1] Elizabeth Kolbert writes in The New Yorker about a delay in some of the cases.[2] She writes that Germany’s central office for investigating Nazi crimes is looking to build cases against fifty former Auschwitz guards. Unfortunately,...
Surviving Seminary
by Zachery Maloney Being in seminary creates a number of tensions in one’s life, namely in the area of time-management. How do we balance various commitments? Balance is not really a word that we find in Scripture, though it certainly seems like a spiritual concern. If we’re all honest, most days end up imbalanced. The seminary student must accept the fact that the challenge of finding balance will never disappear, even beyond...
2013 Theological Symposium: Summary & Reflections
Anytime believers from different regions, vocations, and intellectual backgrounds can assemble to think theologically together, it is likely an occasion worth attending. The annual Free Will Baptist Theological Symposium is such a setting for this type of activity. The Symposium is sponsored by the Commission for Theological Integrity, a historically important arm of the Free Will Baptist movement. The annual meeting met on the campus...
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