BEST ESSAYS
Church Issues
- Our Ears Still Itch (published first in Christianity Today)
- Finger-Pointing and the SBC Decline (published first in Baptist Press)
- Unchurched or Unsaved? (published in Baptist Press)
- Joel Osteen’s Negative Message
- 5 Reasons Why the Emerging Church is Now Receding
- The Fundamentalist Survival Mechanism
- Newsflash! The Key to the 20Somethings is Not Musical Style
- Let Grace Abound in Us, Fellow Seminary Students
Theology
- The Trinitarian Gospel: Why We Need All Three Parts
- Truth is Beautiful
- Don’t Replace the Substitute!
- Why Calvin is More Biblical than Some Calvinists
- Piper versus Wright on Justification: A Layman’s Guide (first published in Christianity Today)
- I Love Revelation, but Eschatology Scares Me
- Why “Limited” and “Unlimited” Atonement Debates Miss the Point
- God is Jesus
Other Essays of Interest
- On Reading Widely
- Echoes of Babel: Our New National Sin
- Bedtime Prayers with our Children
- It is Finished!
- Luther & Zwingli at the Marburg Colloquy
- Why We Are Pro-Life
Best Interviews and Podcasts
- N.T. Wright (November 2007, April 2008, January 2009)
- Danny Akin (June 2009)
- Michael Bird (April 2009)
- Andy Crouch (January 2009)
- Red Mountain Music (August 2008)
- Caedmon’s Call (July 2007)
- Robert Webber (2007)
- All Interviews
Live-Blogging
- “Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Future of Denominationalism” – Union University, October 2009
Favorite Books
Best Book Reviews
- The Shack
- Deep Church
- The Faith – Charles Colson (review first published in Christianity Today)
- The Courage to be Protestant – David Wells
- The Future of Justification – John Piper
- True Story – James Choung (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Young, Restless, Reformed - Collin Hansen
- Surprised by Hope - N.T. Wright
- Pagan Christianity? – Frank Viola & George Barna
- Book Reviews from 2007
- Book Reviews from 2008
