One of the translation consultants at Bibles International just related a funny story. One African tribal group, the Dogba, had the grandest time hearing the American consultant mispronounce their language. They would give her Dogba words, ask her to repeat them, then laugh uproariously. No outsider had ever tried to speak their language.
Thankfully, Christ’s representatives were the first.
I have been swept away. This article by Allen Guelzo (whose dissertation benefited my own, and whose work on Lincoln and the Civil War is waiting for me on my Kindle) is a must-read for every Christian academic. If there's anything in the world wrong with it, I can't...
This quotation has really caught my fancy recently as a good summary of the way conservative Christians are viewed by the surrounding culture in Western nations: Believers aren’t weird because we’re wicked. We’re weird because we’re inexplicable; because, when there’s...
I originally wrote this article for the New York Times opinion page, but it wound up in a slightly less partisan publication, Answers Magazine. (To be clear, the article has been edited a bit to reflect the change of audience.) I just got my copy: [gallery...
I finally got my copy. It's the culmination of my nine years at BJU Press and the one book of mine most likely to actually get read: Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption, a 12th grade Bible textbook for Christian and home schools. But I can't say the book is...
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