A Timely Word for the Episcopal Church?: McClendon on Conversion

The recent elimination of the national evangelism office of The Episcopal Church has caused me to think about the relative lack of emphasis on conversion in the Episcopal Church, especially when compared to more conservative denominations. In that vein, the below is a quote from a former professor at the Church Divinity School of the [...]

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Mark Driscoll on Women in Church Leadership

Uberblogger Halden recently posted the following quote from Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll. Halden also had several lines of colorful commentary to go with it. Let’s just say that I don’t think Driscoll’s logic follows here at all – read any men’s magazines lately? In short, this is pretty horrifying, as usual. [Reader beware - the following is pretty crude...]
Without blushing, Paul is simply [...]

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James Wm. McClendon on Forgiveness, Pt. 2

“But even where the response from the one forgiven is muted or absent, the act of forgiveness, by reaching out as in a transaction to the other, is yet a real act if real consequences flow from it. This is the act that is formalized in the Disciples’ Prayer taught in the Sermon on the [...]

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James Wm. McClendon on Forgiveness

‘This brings up the recurrent belief that forgiving means forgetting. And indeed, Scripture says that God tells Israel he “will remember your sins no more” (Isa. 43.25 NEB). Yet this cannot be understood with literal simplicity, for in the following verse (26) the forgiving God recounts those very sins Israel has committed. In this passage, [...]

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