This Week in Calvinism - December 30, 2011

• Calvinism is on the rise, but so is Buddhism. It seems Americas "cross religious lines much more easily than political ones." And the author thinks that's a good thing.
  
  
• The five conundrums of Calvinism, according to Roger Olson. I would agree. If one insists on holding God to human standards, then, yes, these are conundrums.
  
  
• Thomas Schreiner on Calvinism and the warning passages in Hebrews.
  
  
• Don Bryant accuses John Piper of being "on the wrong side of cruel."
  
  
• One blogger writes, "If election has predetermined every man's fate, nothing anybody can do will change anything, so why try? This is the point of Calvinism, spiritual inactivity." I guess the writer assumes that sinful and rebellious men want to please God.
  
  
• Justin Taylor presents many different ways of reading through the Bible in 2012.