One of the most memorable and important quotations in the debates over homosexuality in the church: Luke Timothy Johnson, New Testament professor at Emory University, has openly admitted what few liberal Christian defenders of homosexuality will: “I think it important...
Mark Ward
Planet Narnia
"Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis" (Michael Ward) I'm still skeptical. A secret thematic organizing principle for the Chronicles of Narnia? But I'm open, and I'm listening. Michael Ward's opening arguments can be summarized as...
The Real Truth about the Chronicles of Narnia
Just picked up a book via the new free inter-library loan program in South Carolina. It's one of those crazy books with a crazy premise that only crazy people would write (or, ahem, read...). I'm told that it says that each of the Chronicles of Narnia was written...
Textual Optimism: A Critique of the UBS4
I'm on the plane to Tampa and I'm reading Textual Optimism: A Critique of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament by Kent W. Clarke, part of the JSNT monograph series now edited by Stanley Porter, The opening chapter on the history of (mainly modern) textual...
A Clear and Present Word by Mark D. Thompson
I've been reading a fantastic book called A Clear and Present Word: The Clarity of Scripture by Moore Theological College's Mark D. Thompson. It's part of the New Studies in Biblical Theology series, edited by D.A. Carson. Moore Theological College brings a few names...
Answer Not a Fool / Answer a Fool
Prov. 26:4-5, ESVAnswer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. The Majority View D.A. Carson, in a long review of three recent bibliology books, says he has often used...
Fair Is Fair
Ok, I caught the NAS adding some interpretation into its translation at a place (Prov. 26:5) where the NIV (and TNIV) were more literal: NAS Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes. NIV Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will...
New York Times’ Kristof on Evangelicals
Nick Kristof is a very entertaining and informative columnist/opinion-writer/humanitarian/world-traveler. I was quite excited when the New York Times made its "Times Select" online content available free to students because I knew it meant I'd finally be reading...
A Little More on Humor and Pulpit Dignity
A friend of mine passed these points along from a more-developed version of a lecture I'd heard BJ Seminary's Dr. Layton Talbert give on humor: The biblical record does not reveal a frivolous or slapstick sense of humor. “The humor of the Bible is not of the...
Mark Dever on Acts 29 and Paul and Salon.com on Dignity
Here's Mark Dever speaking to the Mark Driscoll-related Acts 29 church-planting network yesterday (emphasis mine): Our differences are enough to separate some of my friends—your brothers and sisters in Christ—from you. And perhaps to separate them from me, now that...