Recommended Books (Summer 2024)
As summer begins to draw toward its conclusion, we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics that we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please...
HSF Conversations: Teacher, Scholar, Shepherd with Owens and Talbot
In today’s Conversations post, Phillip Morgan speaks with Jesse F. Owens and Christopher Talbot about their contribution to the recent publication Teacher, Scholar, Shepherd: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Picirilli edited by Phillip T. Morgan and Matthew Steven Bracey. Owens wrote concerning Picirilli’s thinking on the intent and extent of the atonement, and Talbot explored Picirilli’s thinking on the relationship between...
HSF Conversations: Teacher, Scholar, Shepherd with Morgan and Bracey
This past week, Teacher, Scholar, Shepherd: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Picirilli went on sale. Edited by Phillip T. Morgan and Matthew Steven Bracey and published by D6 Family Ministry, this book seeks to honor Dr. Picirilli’s scholarly work over the past seven decades and encourage new scholarship by providing analysis of his various areas of research. It consists of twelve chapters written by Free Will Baptist scholars, including...
Christianity at the Games
by Joshua R. Colson and Brandon K. Presley In the United States, and much of the world, sports are a major part of life. A 2023 survey found that the average American spends just over four hours per week watching sports-related content.[1] Extrapolated over one year, this average amounts to eight days of sports watching. To illustrate further how invested Americans are in sports, Americans collectively wagered a staggering 119.8...
Mandelbrot, Mystery, and Mathematics
Once, my husband bought some discounted tickets to a concert of a famed blues/pop/rock guitarist; I was happy to make an evening of it, since I enjoy dates, live music, and discounts. After waiting over two hours for the star to take the stage and witnessing the crowd of thousands that still happily welcomed him by singing along word-perfect with every song, I realized I had dropped in as an outsider. I was a new fan, and I had much...
Dominion and Care: Industrial Farms and Animal Welfare
by Brandon K. Presley On May 11, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that many may have overlooked. It did not address abortion, sexuality and gender, gun rights, or any of the other “hot button” social issues that we are accustomed to seeing on our televisions or social media feeds; instead, this ruling deals with a law aimed at bolstering animal welfare. In a close vote that did not fall along traditional ideological lines, the...
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