All Change

At coffee today, Peter Head jokingly suggested that I may be something of a jinx for theological institutions. He didn’t look too nervous about it but it’s true that in the last year, there have been a significant number of staff changes at places with which I have strong links. The most recent [...]

That’s odd

The joint WTS/Peter Enns statement is online at the WTS website here and on Pete’s blog here.  Anyone else spot the difference?
ETA: The WTS version has been amended so that both now show the same date of departure.

How do you tell the end from the beginning?

This statement announcing Pete Enns’ departure from WTS has just been made public.  I wonder what church historians will make of this in a hundred years time.  Maybe it will be seen as nothing more than a blip in the progress of the kingdom.  Perhaps it will be the beginning of the end for the [...]

WTS and conversational theology

For anyone without the time or inclination to read the 146-page pdf file now available on the WTS website, Joel Garver has provided a helpful summary and analysis of the documents. He reads between the lines to discern some of the deeper issues that have led to the current crisis.  The following paragraph is [...]

Double whammy

Today has been one of those days that I wish had never happened. Here at Westminster, we had the chapel meeting in which the President and the Chairman of the Board spoke briefly and then answered student questions about the issues surrounding Pete Enns’s suspension from the faculty. It was a sickening exercise [...]

Another sad day

On Wednesday, the Board of Westminster held a meeting to discuss the future of Pete Enns, an OT professor at the seminary, concerning issues in his book ‘Inspiration and Incarnation’.  I and many others had been praying that the board would uphold the faculty vote in which a majority (12-8) found Pete to be orthodox.  [...]