This Week in Word from Bird
The future of seminaries. Religious freedom and the gospel. Tucker Carlson interviews Douglas Wilson. And "All Israel will be saved."
Monday: The Future of Seminaries ... Is Not What You Might Imagine! (Free Sign-Ups)
Declining adherence to institutional Christianity and the digital revolution is going to radically changed seminary education in the future. The models and methods of theological education, ministry formation, and lay-leader development is either going to fall off a cliff or evolve for the 21st century.
Wednesday: The Gospel and Religious Freedom (Free Sign-Ups)
My review of a terrific collection of essays about historical evangelicalism and religious freedom based on the proceedings of a conference held at Baylor University in 2021.
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Thursday: Tucker Carlson interviews Douglas Wilson on Christian Nationalism (Paid Subscribers)
Okay, so I watched the Tucker Carlson’s interview with Douglas Wilson about Christian Nationalism. It is bad, but not as bad as Stephen Wolfe’s brand of Christian Nationalism.
Friday: What does it Mean that “All Israel will be saved” in Romans 11:26 (Paid Subscribers)
At a key point in Paul’s letter to the Romans, after Paul has been wrestling with the Jewish rejection of Jesus and the Gentile acceptance of him, warning Gentiles not to look down on the Jews as if they’ve been voted off redemptive-history island, Paul then turns to the topic of Israel in the future, and his claim is that in the end “all Israel will be saved” (Rom 11:26). But what does that mean?
Saturday: Two Videos For You (Free Sign-Ups)
I made a couple of videos about Mariccus of Gaul and an interview with Mike Cosper about church recovery.
Thanks Dr. Bird for doing a review of Tucker Carlsons interview of Douglas Wilson. Here in the USA 🇺🇸 he is becoming more and more popular within Reformed/ Calvinistic Presbyterian circles or very politically conservative circles etc. His YouTube channel gets thousands of views. There is a lot of controversy surrounding his theology and his congregation in Moscow, Idaho etc. Now he is entering into the fringe MAGA arena (which I don’t think really has many genuine-discerning followers of Jesus) by being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, now his theonomy Post-millennialism teachings is being presented to an audience that may gravitate towards Christian nationalist ideology or extremists right-wing political ideology. I’m just fearful of further confusion will result from him having a bigger platform by being interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Again looking forward to the review.