A reader who attends Boyce College, the undergraduate school of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: I'm not going to keep you, this is the only question I will ask and then I'll simply follow you via social media; can I trust the CSB as an expository preacher?...
Mark Ward
A Must-Read Piece Featuring a Number of My Favorite Writers
I read pretty much everything Alan Jacobs writes. This piece is at the top of the list of must-reads. It’s his assessment of the major storm between two conservatives: Sohrab Ahmari and David French. Let me try to spin Jacobs’ basic argument into the way I would put...
Ron Horton: A Biblical Approach to Objectionable Elements
I had only one class with Ron Horton, Aesthetics—and I had to drop it when my little daughter was born. But I listened to enough lectures to know that the man was brilliant, and I read and enjoyed his book, Mood Tides. I respected him greatly. He died—into new...
Review: Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion
What first attracted me to Rebecca McLaughlin’s Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion was the title. I actually assumed it was a non-Christian book. Second was the author: I read a piece of hers on TGC that I liked. Third, to be...
My Top “Ten” Favorite Choral Pieces
One of my wife’s best Christian friends at our homeschool group is the wife of the talented music director at a large area church. This couple has become respected friends of ours, and recently they asked us to house two singers from a choir that was visiting their...
Review: My Father Left Me Ireland
My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search for Home by Michael Brendan Dougherty My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked up this book on the effusive recommendation of Alan Jacobs. At first I thought I might tire of it: though I felt sympathy for a fatherless boy, I...
Graciously Engaging a KJV-Only Believer: The Story of God’s Grace in One Soul
Back in April of 2008, I was a PhD student in the beginning stages of my dissertation work, I was engaged to be married in a month to a beautiful woman from Ohio, and there were a bunch of black-suit-clad KJV-Only protesters out in front of my school, Bob Jones...
Two Reasons to Watch the Authorized Documentary on FaithlifeTV
The Authorized documentary has been out for a few months now, and lots more people than I ever expected have seen it. But I’m hearing that a number of friends, even close ones, haven’t seen it yet. Hey, it’s okay. I normally don’t watch documentaries with redheaded...
#BibleTech 2019
I spoke at my second BibleTech Conference in Seattle this past week, and it was an enjoyable time. I'm afraid I made the mistake of putting in three paper topics, assuming the organizers would pick one. They picked three. And I did a Q&A for Authorized. And I...
Kindle Price for Authorized Going Up 67% in Four Days
I am told that the Kindle price for Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible will be going up on April 1. Get it while you can! Gift it to others! At the Shepherds Conference two weeks ago, standing at the Lexham table all day, I got to hear multiple...