Another great quotation from Whittaker Chambers that has come to my mind many, many times: I date my break [from Communism, which Chambers lived for and which, he says, was inherently atheist] from a very casual happening. I was sitting in our apartment on St. Paul...
Mark Ward
The Wildflowers Declare the Glory of God
Do you want to be more holy? I do, I know I do. That is one thing that comforts me about the state of my soul: blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness—even if they never quite attain it in practice. Paul said that the way to grow to be more like...
Theologically Exhausted
I've just had the longest post famine in the history of my blog (excluding my honeymoon), I believe. I'm afraid I'm currently focused on work and dissertation, both of which have required significant attention recently. But I can't let my blog readers—both of...
Genesis 1 and Exodus 19, A Canonical Connection
Do you find yourself baffled by the Old Testament? You want to apply it to your life, but many passages seem impenetrable and the lessons you hear drawn from others just don't ring true? One idea I was taught in seminary that has begun to yield some rich results for...
Logos for Mac
I just got this e-mail from my friend Jonathan Bolin, a Ph.D. student and teacher at Piedmont Baptist College and Graduate School. I asked him if I could share it with my blog readers (watch for his own blog coming out soon, perhaps!): I got my copy of Logos for Mac....
The Christian Theologically-Inclined Reader and Kindle 2 (aka Kindle Review)
I saved up for my Kindle for a good while, and I was very excited to receive it! I have not been disappointed. Here are a few of the major benefits: The Kindle has made available to me texts that hitherto had been locked onto my computer. It's just not convenient to...
Jacobs on Augustine on the Hermeneutic of Love
To persons who claim that their understanding of Scripture comes from God alone and not from mere humans, Augustine replies that God didn’t teach them the letters of the alphabet. —Alan Jacobs, A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
What's going to happen now that the internet has blown the old financial model which kept newspapers afloat for so long? An interesting essay by Clay Shirky suggests what I, too, think is the right answer: I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through...
Seek Glory for Yourself, But Don’t Be Self-Seeking
Here's a paragraph from Romans 2 that has occasioned no small discussion among Protestant commentators: He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but...
How Science Fiction Found Religion by Benjamin A. Plotinsky, City Journal Winter 2009
Popular art both reflects and forges popular culture. Science is the ultimate authority for so many in the West, so it shows up in movies. “The Force” is one detail in which the new [Star Wars] films are actually less spiritual than the old. In the 1977 movie, Obi-Wan...