Vox Apologia VI is up at Every Thought Captive.

I’m not exactly an expert on Biotechnology – and I don’t want to write something half-cocked. So, I didn’t.

Heh.

Apologetics:

Challies, with Delighting in the Lord’s Day.

Random thoughts from 21st Century Reformation.

Funky directs us to a post on a favorite blog of mine, The Boar’s Head Tavern.

Imago Dei asks: “Are Human rights best grounded by theism or humanism?”

Alpha and Omega studies the Quran vs Scripture.

(Weekend Edition)

Welcomes!

Wittingshire to the Aggregator. Read their most recent post. It’s a good ‘un. Welcome, Jonathan and Amanda! I hope you enjoy the dialogues!

Announcements:

Don’t Forget! Vox Apologia VI is accepting entries. The subject is “Christian Thought in the Biotech Century.” Phil has further thoughts on it here.

Wittenberg Gate is blogging for Terri Schiavo.

Blog of the Week:

AllThings2All, as penned by Catez. This blog is very insightful – consistently so. With an excellent take on the philosophical, biblical, and spiritual implications of everyday actions, she skewers many of our deeply held (wrongly so) convictions – on a well-nigh daily basis. So.. stop on by, and see what the buzz is about.

Apologetics:

I’m still in my series about Francis Schaeffer’s The Great Evangelical Disaster. My latest installment is “The Wisdom of the World.” I have a very good reason for doing this series. It is a clarion call for those with a bent towards “offensive-style” apologetics to wake up. There are plenty who provide the defensive, “marshalled arguments defending Christianity”. What I’m bent towards is an apologetic which directly attacks those worldviews, supposed truths, and antithetical ideologies which stand in opposition to that of the Christian. So – if you’re a like-minded type – watch for a new section in “The Daily Cut” – as well as semi-regular post pointing out various bloggers who are attacking the tenets of Christianity, with a short bit of commentary. Anyway.. back to the Cut.

Me – “Screwtaping the Inscrutable“, and “Equipping vs. Fighting: A Soldier’s Perspective“.

Andrew, from Weapons of Warfare, is on a week’s hiatus. *sniff*

Funky posts “Mirror of Sin, at Ales Rarus. Interesting post.

James White comments on forgiveness – and Stossel. Good post.

Counter Cult takes on the LDS. Very, very, very good treatment of the Mormon worldview. I suggest you read it.

The Minor Prophet posts some thoughts on their library. (which, actually, is pretty cool) I also had an email exchange with Chad last night. He was curious whether me likening them to IP/HH in the last Daily Cut was entirely complimentary or not. It was. It’s just a matter of their style of blogging – they post a lot of short entries, rather than only a couple large ones. It’s just a matter of style.

Other good posts:

The Myth of Secularism, from AcidInk.
(H/T: Amy)

Antithetics:

Science and Politics takes a dig at apologetics. I answer the dig here. (Keep in mind – this IS the host of the 3rd Carnival of the Godless.) The post is actually an exceedingly good exhaustive roundup of all the Carnivals in the blogosphere, though.

A Quote:

“As an atheist I sometimes feel like an astronaut on an alien planet, surrounded by creatures with strange customs and beliefs. There the theist is–perfectly human in a biological sense–but psychologically alien. Given that atheists are in a tiny minority, given that theism is normal on this planet, it is atheists who should see themselves as the aliens. Instead of demonizing the theist, the atheist needs to think like a character in a realistic science-fiction novel: the atheist needs to stretch her mind to appreciate the theist’s alien thought-patterns.” – Philip Kuchar, Aliens and Demonization

That parallels my exhortation in this post to learn how the “other side” thinks. Interesting.

Update:

The Carnival of the Godless #4 is up at Philosophy, Etc. Engage.

Got something else for me?

Send it. This post will be up, and updated, all weekend. So… send it on.

(Note: I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands.)

My Dear Wormwood,

I note that you seem to bear the unmistakable marks of a sort of glee – if infernal beings can be said to express such. I would caution you – no matter how mistakenly adamant they are – no matter how infernal they become – they are all still, sadly, redeemable. Kindly refrain from such activity in the future. It mirrors too closely the “joy” with which the Enemy welcomes these creatures into His supposed “rest”. It makes me cringe just to think about it.

I did, in fact, read the message the human wrote. It is, in many respects, quite worthy of many who walk the hallowed halls of Our Father Below. However, I once again remind you; they are changeable creatures, and given to the loathsome activity called “repentance”. This letter grows more distasteful, the more I write. However, your instruction results in my appetite being assuaged – so I shall overcome my natural repugnance of discussing the Enemy’s ways and strategies. You do well to assume this creature is well on his way to Our Father’s House. It is a thrilling feeling, is it not? To watch some sniveling mortal scamper his way to his own demise, with not a thought to his eternal state. It is almost too easy, with some of them. There is the delectable crunch of “moral authority”, of “outraged sensibilities”, and “repugnance for the restriction of natural freedom” just wafting off the pages of this exquisite missive. It is truly a masterpiece of self-deceit and ambiguous outrage against he knows not what. I can almost taste this one. Let me do you a small favor, my dear, most esteemed Wormwood, and describe the sensations emanating in waves from it, so that you may get a full picture of the depths he has fallen – and how much you have to lose, if you manage to lose this one.

Joe I think you you misunderstand; I’m glad you’re ruining the reputation of your faith. I’m happy you working hard to prevent anyone from saving it. Just as I’m glad Osama bin Laden is ruining the rep of his faith. There’s no way anyone from outside your cult could have managed to screw it up like those inside can. My hope is that both the Neo-Islamic and Neo-Christian violent extremists continue to screw it up.

I love his use of rhetoric and comparison! He not only vilifies the Enemy, and his slavering minions as the real “Enemy” – he manages to work in a half dozen negatively connotative words to describe the Enemy’s forces! Not only that, he lumps the Islamics (and, let me tell you – they are one of Our Father’s greatest achievements!) along with the Christians – while simultaneously implying that violence and Christianity are one and the same! Truly a masterwork, my dear Wormwood. In the opening sentence, he establishes his thesis – and instead of attempting to prove it – he simply attacks, and attacks! (As I have told you before – arguments will never win souls for Our Father. The trouble about argument is that it moves the struggle onto the Enemy’s ground.)

This is a worldwide struggle against the forces of ignorance and superstition Vs those of reason and rationality. You’re doing your part to insure low recruitment in the industrialized world for Neo-Christianity, and Al Qaeda is doing the same for violent Islamic fanaticism. By acting the way your both are, you’re helping the rest of humanity see you for the immoral violent fanatics you all are. And being an atheist, I see that as a good thing. (Throwing in a Gay Military Hooker working for you at the White House was beyond my wildest hopes!)

Ah, I see here that he is trotting out several of our finest works, all in succession. You truly have done great things. He frames the question as a battle (which, of course, we have made “acceptable, if you are fighting against the Enemy – but not if you are fighting for Him. Another great advance by our philologists!), while simultaneously frames the enemy as “superstitious”, “ignorant”, and throws in the egregious “violent”, in application to what he is comparing our Enemy’s forces to. Brilliant! He then throws in the blanket “immoral”, drops the hammer with “fanatics” (a wonderful word, “fanatic!), and then brings in some temporal failing to “prove” the immorality of a political leader affiliated with them! No worry that he disagrees with whether what this person did was immoral – as long as the people which he is being appellative considers it so! Of course, if challenged, he will respond only that he was pointing out hypocrisy. Such is the nature of our game.

When you signed off on torture and death (And by ‘you’ I mean both Islamicists and Neo-Christians) and the whole violent religious kick, you lost any and all claims to morality. You’re done, in the eyes of the world. Finished. And I can now honestly say that my atheist subjective quirky morality far outstrips the horrid set of ethics the Islamo-Christian fanatics demonstrate everytime they open their mouths.

Ah, such a wonderfully delightful outrage! What makes it better still is that he doesn’t know what exactly he is outraged against! He claims that Islam and Christianity are equivalent – yet makes no equivalence apparent. From there, he makes the leap from “since I have said you lost all moral claims” to “thus, you have no claim to morality”. Infernal! Do you see what fruits our patient work in the “subjectivism” field have brought? There is no “ethics” – there is “a” set of ethics! Not only that – he doesn’t even mention which supposed ethics are the horrid ones! General, unprovable claims are the best. Our “natural selection” efforts have prove this quite effectively, have they not?

When evil rears its ugly head, you’re either with it or against it. And until you renounce that association with violence, you’re with it. So I’m glad you did it, because now I can handily dispel any illusions you may have once had about being ‘more moral’ than the next guy. I’m glad because now I revel in my vastly superior set of ethics while your own faith gets dragged into the gutter of bloodshed and violence. Anytime one of you brings up morality, all we need do is mention Alebrto Gonzales and the moral argument is over, and I win.

Ah, such a wonderfully convoluted thought process he has! With no inconvenient definition for evil – just a fuzzy, ill-defined label which brings all of the connotations, with none of the specific side-effects, like guilt, he removes any way to argue specifically against him. By couching everything in amorphous terms, he can attain heights of authority inconsistent with fact. By continually hammering home the fact that “moral” consists of “being more moral then the next guy” (completely contrary to any sort of Enemy standards), he can totally redefine the argument to his own wishes. He can also “revel” – because he has destroyed absolute – and can determine whatever standard of “morality” anyone has – and always have his own reign supreme. He is the only judge of it, after all. (Ah, the taste will be exquisite. “Righteous Indignation” – sauteed in the juice of “unalloyed gall”. Delectable. But I digress.)

American Evangelical Neo-Christianity and violent Islamis Fascism is so now percieved as so foul, so immoral, so distasteful to the civilized world, that you’ve helped end religion’s hold over humanity down the road by poisoning the well. I duobt you can crawl out of that pit in the eyes of the world at this point any time soon, no matter what good deeds you do.

Aha! He not only fails to give any specifics of this so-called immorality, which might be refuted – he doesn’t even bother to even obliquely refer to them! He simply states that the Enemy’s forces are (once again) equivalent to the Islamic branch of our farming operations! Irony can be infernal. Not even we, if we were so inclined, could think the irony here is funny. It’s just… too infernal. He uses emotionally connotative words, yet again – which only reinforce the illogic, and irresistibility of the non-argument, to the easily swayed. A work of ugliness, most definitely – and I am a connoisseur. He then totally dismisses any concept of good – in his quest for “smoking out evil”! Ah, it is so… refreshing (do I dare use that word?) to see the log removal services getting so little business these days. Don’t you agree?

And that’s wonderful for mankind! The funniest thing is … all the world’s religious nutcases are so engrossed in their thirst for blood, violence, and hatred, I can openly crow over their lack of ethics and make hold them up to ridicule like I’m doing now … with no chance of you stopping or even taking me seriously! Hehe, it’s pretty cool! Ultimately, religious revival is always its own worst enemy, becuase it always goes too far and sickens decent people in the end.

This is so excessive, that I would be proud of it. It is a simple roll in the muck – with an attempt to call itself clean. Truly masterful. There is no attempt to hide the blatant illogic, the rampant misdirections, the hateful relish with which he spews his vileness in their direction – and he makes it all seem as if it is virtue! It is almost too much – he states that revival – the worst possible outcome – is sickening – to… wait… can it be? Decent people! This whimpering mortal is magnificently caught. He truly believes his own lies – to the extent where his white is black, and his black is truly white – in his own mind! He really believes this drivel! If I weren’t such a pragmatist, I would disbelieve that you had effected such a metamorphosis. It seems you have done it, however. My palate will salute you.

So, while the christian and Islamic crazies might not like what they’re producing in the long run … they can be counted on to never stop. And I’m enjoying it immenesly with every life you take, with every person you torture, with every moral code your demolish, with every child your surrogates rape. Please, for Odin’s sake, Osama, Tim Lahoye, Pat Robertson, Ameyn Zarawori: DO NOT STOP! Keep it up! The Rapture will be coming any day now! [EG].

For the final relish: He enjoys what he cannot understand – because he no longer has any conception of what the difference is between right and wrong anymore. Which have you inculcated, Wormwood? “Tolerance” as the highest “good”, or “personal freedom”? We may have to question you further, to ascertain the answer – if you succeed in keeping this one in your clutches. He is currently in a veritable pinnacle of moral equivalence – but you must ensure it lasts. If you lose this one – I will be unimaginably hungry. I may eat you instead.

Your affectionate Uncle,

Screwtape

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If you like this one… let me know. I may do more. Let me know if I can improve on them at all, and in what way. (It is HARD to write without using any “good” descriptives. I need to bone up on Screwtape a bit.)

~ RK

Perhaps the greatest thing I have taken from Schaeffer is as follows: For a Christian to act like a Christian, towards the world as well as other Christians – they must follow two important principles in their thought life.

1. Take every thought captive to the mind of Christ. This means that every single thought – in every area of our lives – must be in conformance with those of Christ. All too often I have seen this verse be used to castigate our thought life as the deeper motive behind our sinful actions – which is true, to an extent. It usually is linked to the teaching of Jesus that even a sinful thought is sin. This leaves us wondering – how can we escape, then? Well, let me ask you something. Upon what basis are we being re-taught how to think as Christ would think? Are we being taught this? Are we willing to learn this? We see the results of non-Biblical, un-Christlike thinking all around us – and even in our own lives. How is, though, that you retrain your thoughts? God renews our minds – this is one part of it. We must, however, put in the effort to think on topics in accordance with what the Bible says about them. Which means that we must study all topics, at all times, with prayer and meditation, from a Biblical perspective. We must try to think, and actually think – as God would. Will we succeed perfectly? Will we even succeed at all in ourselves? No. I have found, however, that since I have started an earnest study into “God’s thinking”, that I have been thinking better, thinking more clearly, and thinking of things “from the perspective of Biblical truth” much, much, much more often than I would have ever dreamed. It’s extraordinary how God has honored my commitment to study how I should think. When Solomon asked for wisdom – God gave it to him – and praised him for it. Should we do any less?

2. We are not only to learn to think as God would, but we must recognize and confront (lovingly, but firmly) the thinking that is not of God. There are several reasons for this. We must know the “language” (or, better, thought-forms) of our surrounding culture well enough to be able to confront what is there – and not a misrepresentation of what is there – and bear witness to the Truth of God in that culture. (Although this analogy “breaks” in a couple points – it may be useful to some as a general direction.) We must, if we are to instruct others about God and His Truth, be able to recognize and identify the arguments originating from this antithetical, distorted “truth” that confronts us. Once we know how they think, (and we must be able to recognize, identify, and refute futile thinking) we can then show them God’s Truth – and be able to contrast True Truth and distorted truth. We must be grounded – really and truly grounded – in True Truth, in order to counter the distortions of it. So, we must both know Truth, but how to recognize deviations from that Truth. In order to recognize a lie – the Truth must be understood. It must be understood to such a degree that it is not only defended as Truth, but simultaneously used on the offensive against distortions – or lies.

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As we touched on in the last post, the battle has several “fronts”. One of those fronts consists of ideas. Schaeffer says we are “locked in battle” with our culture. We are in what has been called a “culture war” by many – with the unfortunate connotation that the war is about culture, or that it has a scope limited only to culture. Let me broaden it a bit for you.

The actions we take are legitimized by what we deem “permissible” – in our thought life. Our thoughts are the gateway to our heart of hearts, and to our actions. If you assume a certain form of thought, your actions will follow accordingly. How you think is integral to how you act – and you you feel towards, and regard, your fellow men. Any Christian with experience debating a proponent of humanism/atheism can tell you – they do not think the way that we are called to think. They vary in type, and form – but they are all incompatible with the thought life a Christian is called to have. What is it we are called to do?

Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. – Col. 3:2

– and –

For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. – 1 Cor. 2:16

We are to have the mind of Christ. Directed toward, guided by, and grounded in the knowledge and wisdom of Christ. Do we really understand the implications of this? Do we truly know the immensity of this calling? We are called to be Holy – as He is Holy. Do we, can we, imagine that our thoughts are exempt from this imperative?

Knowledge is added through diligent study – Wisdom is granted by God, and correctly applies knowledge to Godly principles – Understanding is gained through maturity, and application of Wisdom to daily living. Does that make sense? Knowledge can be acquired by anyone willing to put the work into it. The ability to apply knowledge into thoughts and precepts is wisdom. How that knowledge is applied differentiates Godly wisdom from worldly wisdom. Understanding is the correct balance resulting from the Godly application of knowledge (wisdom) to daily living – which will, in turn, result in Godly action. For more on wisdom, see this post.

Oh, we have a book to study! Read on…

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(Thursday Edition)

Announcements:

Phil Steiger, of Every Thought Captive, is hosting Vox Apologia VI this week. The topic is “Christian Thought in the Biotech Century.”

Send your entry to this address.

Subject is included in the email link.

Apologetics:

Rey wants some input. He’s also afraid – very afraid – of Rebecca’s birdshot.

Phil is discussing The Emergent Church, Apologetics and Stanley Grenz – as well as collecting “Op-Ed Piece and Responses” concerning “Intelligent Design in the Public Square”.

Dory is hosting the Christian Carnival, along with Sharing Spirit (the intended hostess – a bit of a mixup, it seems).

Dory is also spearheading Blogging for Terri Schiavo”. My suggestion? Make your entry for the Vox Apologia a double-whammy – blog on Terri, and bioethics at the same time, where possible – they dovetail quite nicely.

Alex posts an Open Letter to Seminary Students.

Brad posts parts 3 and 4 of his story.

Catez covers The Qu’ran: Plagiarism of the Bible and Omissions.

For further discussion, see Andrew’s post: Surah 1: Al Fatihah (The Opening).

Also, Andrew has posted on Why Antithesis?, and The Keen Eyes of Kierkegaard.

off shore fisherman brings us Spirit Realm. I really encourage you to make this blog a daily read. He has some great, great insights – in a form reminiscent of the pithiness and brevity of Proverbs. I like his blog a lot.

Eric starts a Fundamental blogroll.

Visit blogma’s new blog design/url – as designed by another AA member – the one and only Tim Challies! (who, by the way, has a cool post entitled “Inherited Sin“, from his “Feedback Files”.)

And, well.. just read everything on the front page from James White’s Alpha and Omega. I mean, when I want to link every single post, for one reason or another… may as well just link the blog!

The Minor Prophet is the same deal today – but for a different reason. He’s almost an instapundit/hewitt-type of blogger – which means a lot more, shorter posts – which means a TON of links, if I tried to link everything. So, just go read it. I find it hard to do a roundup on the shorter-post-type blogs, if they are prolific in number of posts-per-day 😀

Remember – if you have something you think would be interesting to apologists, or should be brought to our attention – please, email me here.

The next post in my Schaeffer series should be done tommorow. It ended up a bit longer than I planned – but I don’t see where exactly I can cut it! So, it’ll just have to wait until tomorrow.

Also – I plan on implementing some new ideas this weekend.

1. A “weekly challenge”. I will find, or take email submissions for, a challenge per week from an atheist or agnostic. That will be listed in the apologetics section up and to your right – but, maybe, in the “sidecut” area. I haven’t decided. I also need to set up an email reminder list for the Vox Apologia, and get a more timely and efficient system to annouce/plan it. I’m not doing it correctly, and I need to get that straightened out.

2. A section to somehow highlight “ways to engage the atheistic/agonostic bloggers, and create dialogue”. We need to do this, folks. I’m going to keep exhorting you toward this – because I really feel we have a calling to engage our equivalents in the “non-theism” blogosphere. I’ve said it before – we need to be actively engaging in the battle. Writing battle plans is a very good thing – but we can’t all be writing the plans, or creating the strategies. We have to be soldiers, on the front lines – you know?

If the Evangelical world is mired within a Great Disaster (or should we use “quagmire”? :D) – this is part and parcel of it’s second failure. The failure to defend Truth as Truth. This is a battle! Martin Luther once said:

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.’

What an utterly damning indictment! Examine yourself – where do you flinch? We cannot say honestly that we do not.

Oh yes… the book 😀

And if we have not fail to take the battle seriously, we have certainly failed to use the weapons our Lord has provided.

Once again – refer to Ephesians 6. Then read on.

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(Tuesday Edition)

Breaking:

I just called out DarkSyde, of UTI out, due to his comments at Evangelical Outpost. I hope he stops by.

If he does, and if he does as I told him – bring friends – I’d appreciate your help in answering.

It’s what we do, after all.

Apologetics:

Every Thought Captive begins a series on The Knowledge Argument.

Tim is homesick for hymns.

The HAT reminds us that God is not Absent. And, He also claims, with understandable pride, that his son is the most wonderful 2 year old in thw world. I have a daughter – and she just turned 1 – so I won’t argue.

Eric posts his story – and he is seeking additional contributors .

Dory (the new Christian Carnival primary host) informs us of possible complications with the next CC host.

Andrew is in need of prayer. He also gives my recent post a flog.

off shore fisherman tells us about armor bearers. Hrmm.. I’m thinking “tie-in”, for some reason… I can’t imagine why.

Funky compares Catholic and Arminian soteriologies.

Bible Archive is blogging away on Elijah, still. His latest is “The Pronouncement.” Luff 4 Elijah.

Jeff is going to Jamaica…

Imago Dei takes on Pharyngula, in Pharyngeal Phantasies. Excellent post.

Alpha and Omega gets robbed… and posts part VI of their “The Catholic Verses” series.

Jeff Downs has an ideal job description. I want that job too. Unlike me.. he’s actually qualified 😀

There you go.. the Daily Cut… in 5.75 minutes. How bout dem apples?

Update:

Eternal Perspectives is hosting a symposium on Neil Anderson.

Just as an aside: Please, do email me things you want to put on the Daily Cut. I may not post all of them – or they may be a day or two later, because I’m busy – but if you are in the Aggregator, especially (and I didn’t hit your post for some reason), or if you are not, but found something that is either a good announcement or something apologists would go for – please – email me.

Thanks!

P.S. – I’m going to Waffle House again – to drink lots of coffee, and to do the prep for the next installment of my Schaeffer series. That was where I did all the prep for that series, and wrote the entire study notes (sans crosswalk references) for my last post 😀 (Except for a short stint at Pizza Hut… hehe. Yes, I’m commenting about you on my blog… bwahaha.)

I’m not even going to touch Shaeffer this post. I’m going to hit something more important. As I told you last time, I wanted you to read Ephesians 6. That’s what we’re going to hit on today.

I had an absolute ball digging into this. If you remember, I was feeling a bit disappointed – unsurprisingly, God had something for me – in a rather immediate fashion. All this weekend, I’ve been dealing with God, and He with me. He rebuked me where I needed it, and encouraged me where I needed it. How? By bringing me to the point in Schaeffer’s book where we address spiritual warfare – and the portion of the Bible which directly addresses it.

An apologist is directly, smack-dab in the middle of spiritual warfare of the deadliest kind. It’s easy to get discouraged, or off course, or caught up in details when you should see spiritual battle lines. This was God’s wake-up call to me. “Quit having a pity party – and FIGHT! Here is how, and here are the tools I have given you. Quit your whining, and get back into MY fight!”

So… you want to see what I learned? Click “more.”

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(MondayEdition)

Announcements:

Vox Apologia V is up!

(Sorry It’s so late – I was stupidly busy at work.)

Apologetics:

Catez has two rockin posts: Cognitive Dissonance and the Call of Conscience, and The People Who Sat in Great Darkness.

I feel so… pwnt? Seriously… go read them. Like, now. This is getting to be a common theme, by the by. Why haven’t her blog been my blog of the week yet? Probably because I’m dumb 😀

Weapons of Warfare burninates Islam. (w00t! I worked in a trogdor link!)

Funky gets a Warnie!

Around the ‘Sphere:

Michael Russell, from Eternal Perspectives, took up Adrian’s challenge and created a Theology Aggregator.

He says:

Adrian had two great ideas: the first was to set up a theology aggregator; the second was to have someone else do it. That’s where I came in.

It’s up now at Blogdigger. It’s called “Theology Blogs” (clever, eh?); subtitle, Expository, Exegetical, Practical: Resources for Serious Christ-Followers.

Adrian also recommended some qualifications for contributors:

1. An earned doctorate in theological studies;
2. Active involvement in vocational ministry.

To which I added:

3. Anybody I deem worthy.

If, for some reason, you don’t want to be included, let me know and I’ll eliminate you; if you’d like to be considered, let me know – I couldn’t find personal information on all of you, so I’ve probably overlooked more than a few. Or if you would like to recommend someone else, let me know about that, too.

(His clarification in a second email: any one of the three would qualify you.

Good stuff!