Letter from America
Mars Hill – tell it not in Gath
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Dec 2014
From a distance, the Mars Hill story looks an imponderable mess.
Who did what, when, why, how, and (what’s more) why on earth could it have been allowed to get to this level of angst? These are questions that people like you and me, who are outside the celebrity inner circle, ask but are unlikely ever to find answers.
Letter from America
Light on gay marriage
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Nov 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court has just decided to not decide on gay marriage.
As anticlimactic as a non-decision decision is, this was nonetheless of great significance. Effectively, the Supreme Court has legitimated the decisions of States to allow gay marriage by refusing to intervene (one way or another). Commentators have wondered whether this was motivated so as not to be tarnished with a Roe v. Wade like stigma which the Court has carried ever since its decision on abortion in the eyes of the conservatives.
Letter from America
USA: head in sand over ISIS
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Oct 2014
Observing the conversation regarding the abhorrent evil that is ISIS, I have come to two conclusions.
One - worldview matters. Two - some, even when their worldview is patently failing, will continue to stick their head in the sand.
Letter from America
Holy internet debate
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Jul 2014
The text, ‘be holy as I am holy’, is perhaps one of the most old-fashioned sounding in the Bible.
But it is newly alive with interpretative complexities. How are we to be holy? Can Christians be called to be holy? What is the most effective means by which Christians are urged towards holiness? Is it legalism to urge the use of the law in Christian discipleship? Are Christians supposed to put effort into their holiness?
Letter from America
Meet the president!
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 May 2014
Josh Moody interviews David S. Dockery, the newly appointed president of Trinity International University.
This university in Illinois, USA, includes Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where Don Carson is a professor.
Letter from America
Death of a... communicator
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Apr 2014
Arthur Miller’s famous play, Death of a Salesman, has come to mind recently in a somewhat facetious, but applicable way.
The first time I was aware of it was when a then-famous preacher asked me what my role was at College Church. This in itself was not particularly unusual. Titles for positions of church staff are sometimes opaque, and it makes sense to delve a little further.
Letter from America
Gordon-Conwell
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Mar 2014
Josh Moody interviews Dr. Dennis Hollinger, president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
JM: What do you love about Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary?
Breaking the Church / State link
JEB
Date posted: 1 Jun 2014
Given the rise of secular ideas, should the Church of England be disestablished?
David Cameron looks upon Britain as a ‘Christian country.’
