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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Why We Should Be More Sceptical of Myers-Briggs
Mere Orthodoxy (which you really should be following) has guest posted a piece of mine entitled ‘The Dangers of Appealing to Personality Type’. Within it I make a case for a sceptical approach to personality tests such as Myers-Briggs. Everyone … Continue reading
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Can Evangelicals See Themselves in the LGBT Movement?
Over the weekend I was invited to contribute a piece to the Christ & Pop Culture site. I wrote a short article interacting with a recent Rod Dreher post, which you can read here. Within it I argue that there … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Guest Post, Sex and Sexuality, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Secularization in Christianity’s Opposition to Pornography?
Sociological Images (well worth following, by the way) has just posted this fascinating piece on changes in Christian discourse in opposition to pornography: Sociologist Jeremy Thomas tested this proposition, looking at changes in how authors writing for the popular magazine Christianity … Continue reading
Posted in On the web, Sex and Sexuality, Theological
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Response to Hannon on Heterosexuality
Over on Mere Orthodoxy, Matthew Lee Anderson has written a helpful response to Michael Hannon’s recent First Things piece ‘Against Heterosexuality’. I read Hannon’s piece over a week ago and had a number of concerns about it when I did … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Sex and Sexuality, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Why We Shouldn’t Trust Our Stories
Earlier today, Derek Rishmawy posted a piece entitled ‘My Evangelical Story Isn’t So Bad (Or, a Ramble on Experience, Biography, & Theology)’. Within it he discusses his generally positive experience of growing up as an evangelical and how this colours … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Priestly Service in Romans 6
A few weeks ago I heard a sermon on Romans 6:15-23, during which a number of questions were raised in my mind about the way that the passage should be read. Seeing the second half of Romans 6 referenced in … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Exodus, NT, NT Theology, OT, OT Theology, Romans, Soteriology, The Sacraments, Theological
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Continuing Discussion of Women, Theology, and Representation
A few days ago, I wrote a lengthy post entitled Women, Theology, and Representation, which discussed the place of female theologians in evangelical theology. The intention of the piece was to raise some issues for discussion and debate, presenting some … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, The Church, Theological
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The Davenant Trust
The Davenant Trust has just been launched. Its mission is described as follows: We aim to equip evangelical and Reformed Christians today for church leadership, civic participation, and faithful discipleship in other vocations as responsible citizens, by encouraging scholarly research … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, On the web, Theological
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Why Religious People Are Ashamed of Porn
Marc over at Bad Catholic has a great post discussing the claim that religious people’s shame destroys their experience of sexuality. Discussing the relationship between the fact that religious people feel more shame about pornography yet supposedly have greater enjoyment … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Sex and Sexuality, The Blogosphere
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Women, Theology, and Representation
Perhaps one of the most striking features of the list of the sixty most influential evangelical theologians that was recently posted here (which I took from Gerald Hiestand, over at the Center for Pastor Theologians) was the virtual absence of … Continue reading
Posted in The Church, Theological, Uncategorized
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