Blogging for credits

Every course I taught during the fall semester at Campbell University Divinity School has been both enjoyable and challenging, none more so than one we call “The Ministry of Writing.” Believing that better writing skills can enhance ministry in a variety...

Tube time

Most folks who know how to access the web have heard of YouTube, a video-sharing sensation that made its founders obscenely rich while fascinating people with both time and broadband on their hands. Those of us who are short on time usually get introduced to YouTube...

Going nuts

I don’t know how the term “nuts” or “nutty” came to be associated with bizarre behavior or ridiculous ideas, but there are as many nutso characters in the newspapers lately as there are acorns falling from my neighbor’s tree and...

Exegete this …

With the end of the semester approaching, my desk holds a stack of exegesis papers dutifully written and presented as an offering by my Old Testament and 1-2 Samuel students at the Campbell University Divinity School. In a folder, there is a list of 17 blog sites from...

Is Calvinism predestined to grow?

Observers of Baptist life – especially as it relates to the Southern Baptist Convention – will not be surprised to learn that Calvinism is on the rise. With Al Mohler, an advocate of Calvinism, having led the SBC’s flagship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary...