Mr. Locke’s Classroom

In my Church History class, we have recently moved from the early era of the persecuted church into the era of the church-in-bed-with-the-empire.  This also happens to be the era of creeds.  I get the sense that for many, this represents merely a bunch of names, dates, and outcomes to memorize.  Ancient History.  But for [...]

People have started wars, split churches, and even been burned at the stake over this simple question casually posed to me by my three year old son last night at dinner.
“Daddy, is Jesus God?”
It would have been easy to give the quick, standard, unquestionable answer I was raised with:
“Yes, Grady. Absolutely. Now finish [...]

You may remember me ranting about a psychological evaluation I had to undergo a few weeks ago, as part of my journey to become an ordained Presbyterian minister. I still think the pre-meeting questions were insanely long and inquisition-like, but the actual meeting with the psychologist turned out to be fairly pleasant. And [...]