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Mark Ward
BJU Chapel Speaker Makes the New York Times
We have arrived, it seems, at a moment in our history when the most vigorous and coherent counterculture around is the one constructed by conservative Christians. ... It is conservative Christians... who, more self-consciously than any other large social group, buck...
A Note from the Tilt-A-Whirl
Real stars are illegal in most states. You have to get them on the reservation. —N. D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl
Linguist-Translator with Valuable Insight on Bible Translation
Ernst-August Gutt, an author recommended to me by David Bell, has changed my wavering opinion on whether or not Bible translations should translate metaphors. You really need to read Gutt's whole—relatively brief—discussion to follow this, but try anyway: It is often...
Gospel-Centeredness
I went to the Bob Jones University Faculty/Staff opening meeting this year with real excitement, more than ever in the nine times I've gone. Yes, heavy hors d'oeuvres were on their way, including my annual shrimp dosage. But somehow I felt that something even better...
How to Be Popular in One Easy Step
If you, like me, have been looking for a thoughtful, definitive article on the health care crisis, I highly recommend this lengthy piece in the Atlantic. I just finished it, and I found it incredibly sane. The writer, a Democrat, had a perspective that I felt put...
Tech Tweet
Neil Postman: New technologies increase our options, but they just as frequently decrease our options. Postman recommends that we ask this question about any given technology: What is the problem to which this technology is the solution?
Free Cartoon Fridays (Sep 4): “B.C. Harmony”
Welcome back to Free Cartoon Friday! Check back each week for a free cartoon I failed to sell to Christian pastors' magazines in 2005! Click image for full size. Any real cartoonists out there who are willing to put my ideas in more appealing visual form and sell them?
Sadness over Southern
I can hardly put Gregory Wills' history of Southern Seminary down, and I'm willing to call it a must-read for conservative evangelical and fundamentalist seminarians. It was thrilling to read of Boyce and Broadus' doctrinal rigor and foresight, and it's been deeply...
Biblical Love 2: Response to the Father of Friends of This Blog
Don Johnson, a Canadian pastor and father (and father-in-law, respectively) of my good friends Duncan and Meg Johnson, offered a response to my last post on love, a post in which I argued that love is not an action: I have defined agape love as an act of the will for...