Piety

The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom

Craig Bartholomew offers some insightful comments on wisdom in Proverbs: There are no areas of life that wisdom does not reflect upon: leadership and royalty, wealth and poverty, economics and law, and justice, marriage, and developing sexuality—they are all here,...

1Marks Interview Series

Some moons ago, I interviewed Dr. Robert Bell in the first of what I hoped would become a 1Marks Interview Series. It is now officially a series, because Dr. Robert Vincent agreed to sit with me for an hour-long interview (right click link; choose "Save Target As")...

The Toolshed Quote

I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place....

Eustace

That tiresome old bother, Eustace, makes a royal nuisance of himself throughout the opening chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. But then Aslan gives Eustace a severe mercy: he turns him into a dragon. He shows everyone, including Eustace himself, what is in...

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I ran across this in my Theological Journal Library in Logos a few weeks ago, and I literally laughed with delight. Maybe you'd have to be living in the country I live in right now (Dissertationastan) to find this as perfectly glorious as I did, but perhaps people in...

The Singular We

A minor exegetical note that I'm sure I'm not the first to notice but did just now: Do you sometimes get the sense that Paul is using something like the "royal we" ("Unhand our royal person!"), that when he says "we" he means "me"? Here's some evidence that you were...