On this blog in history: November 1-20, 2007

Continuing the retrospective posts . . .. . . and it’s not even fake Carson
An occasion for dispute between John Stackhouse and D. A. Carson provided an occasion to consider an unfortunate trend in disputes among Christian academics.Midway between luck and skill
On the Battle of Midway and the providence of God.The spirit of the soul
Lynn Redgrave, thumos, and how we face death.Ministry as trinitarian work
After I finished Andrew Purves’ book The Crucifixion of Ministry: Surrendering Our Ambitions to the Service of Christ, I went on to Stephen Seamands’ book Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service, which had been on my to-read list for a while; the two books complement each other wonderfully, I think, as Dr. Seamands’ work sets the message of Dr. Purves’ book in a trinitarian context.