To be clear, I'm not sure if Conn is correct bc Ridderbos does have a small portion discussing Paul as a missionary. I'm also unconvinced throwing out abstractionism for the sake of accessibility is wise either. Seems like it could be a both/and? Nevertheless, Conn cracks me up.

Seems like Harvie Conn was in the middle of creating a course at WTS titled, "Pastoral Theology & the Black Church," before his retirement. The bibliography indicates an intersection btwn the Black church & neo-Calvinist missiology. Sad we couldn't see the final product.

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Show me elders who are faithfully preaching, shepherding, evangelizing, leading in mercy, loving their families and neighbors… And who have time for daily debates online with other elders. You can’t. They don’t exist.

As SNAP benefits expire in a few days & tens of millions potentially start going hungry in the US, there’s no better time to question our elitism, classism, & middle-class bubbles by reflecting on how many people we personally know that soon won’t have food on their tables.

Finally received a copy of JH Bavinck’s stunning limited-edition Zeven Psalmen (only 400 printed!), after James Eglinton introduced me to it in Sept. The artwork is extraordinary—and it sits beautifully alongside Makoto Fujimura’s Four Holy Gospels.

"The Reformed have never been narrow-minded." -Herman Bavinck

"All the misery of the Presbyterian Churches is owing to their striving to consider the Reformation as completed, and to allow no further development of what has been begun by the labor of the Reformers." -Herman Bavinck

I’m a little late but I’m starting to really like Donald Macleod. I can see why he’s called, “The People’s Theologian.”