The latest book from Union University Press has just been published and is titled, Great Stories of the Old Testament. Our Word Series in chapel in Spring 2025 shifted from our typical process of preaching through a specific book and instead focused on some of the great stories of the Old Testament. It seems that …
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In April 2025, the trustees of Union University approved A Framework for Biblical Anthropology as a guiding statement for the university. Union’s president, Dr. Dub Oliver, had placed in our current strategic plan the crafting of such a statement since most of the hot button issues of our day are rooted in anthropology, revolving around …
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Each year I keep a list of the books I read all the way through, typically with brief notes, as a way of tracking my thoughts and a way to look back on each year and see some of what influenced me. So, in this post I have drawn from that list some of the …
I am pleased to get to announce the publication of my mom’s book today, her first birthday since going to be with the Lord. My mom loved words and writing. I knew she published a few of her reflections and poems in local papers and discovered she had published a few in a local journal. …
The Imaginative Conservative recently published my essay with this title. This is an address I gave to a group of Union students at a guys morning Bible study a couple of years ago. Too many voices encourage men to laziness or a complaining, whining spirit. We must cast this off and embrace the call to …
Each year I keep a list of the books I read all the way through, typically with brief notes, as a way of tracking my thoughts and a way to look back on each year and see some of what influenced me. So, in this post I have drawn from that list some of the …
Kudos to Gregory Soderberg for this new edition of this important essay by John Brown of Haddington! I have for years said this piece deserved republication for a new audience. You can see an earlier blog post here. At the time of that post, WorldCat only showed 3 copies of the booklet in the US. …
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One of the great things about reading history is that you stumble upon powerful examples. I am currently reading David Roll’s Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World. After describing the events leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima and the devastating effects of the atomic bomb, Roll related …
