12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke My rating: 5 of 5 stars The best way to summarize this book is probably to let the author do it. In the last twelve chapters, I have warned against twelve corresponding ways in which smartphones are changing us and...
Mark Ward
KJVOism, Fanaticism, and Epistemology
Alan Jacobs offers a "useful definition of fanaticism": No matter what happens, it proves my point. That is, true believers’ beliefs are not falsifiable: everything can be incorporated into the system—and indeed, the more costs true believers have sunk into the...
Advanced Hermeneutics, Lecture 1: Prolegomena
My respected, long-time friend Joel Arnold has set up the Asia Center for Advanced Christian Studies, an online school aimed at men who don't have access to PhD-level courses but who can benefit from them. ACACS uses live video in Zoom.us meetings. And multiple other...
Fantastic Deal on My Favorite Theology Books
John Frame is retiring, and now you can have all six of his best and most important books for $120. Hardbacks. This is killer. I paid much more. Do not miss this deal: $20 a book for some of the best theology books you will ever buy. The Doctrine of the Knowledge of...
Review: Confessions of a Fundamentalist
Confessions of a Fundamentalist by Aaron Dunlop My rating: 3 of 5 stars Some good insights. A gracious perspective. Critical of bad leaders without letting fawning followers of the hook. Thinks carefully through what a healthy doctrinal militancy should look like....
KJVParallelBible.org Needs Your Help
Training Video Post updated December, 2018 I’m working on a textual critical project aimed at laypeople, and I need help from volunteers. I am showing English speakers, using English, the differences between the Textus Receptus and the Nestle-Aland text. Differences...
Is Science the Best Way to Know?
Not long ago, popular YouTube science guy Derek Muller of Veritasium put out a video detailing the myriad ways in which scientific studies go wrong. He titled it, "Is Most Published Research Wrong?" He ends with these words (click here to skip to this portion of the...
Stanley Fish on the Foundations Baptist Fellowship and American Protestant Fundamentalism More Generally
Readers of my blog know that I have a strong (and perhaps strange) affinity for Stanley Fish, the pragmatic, antifoundationalist literary theorist and classic public intellectual gadfly. I find him always stimulating and incisive, even when I disagree. But because his...
My Room off the Hallway of Christianity
C.S. Lewis writes in his intro to his world-famous book, Mere Christianity, I hope no reader will suppose that ‘mere’ Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions—as if a man could adopt it in preference to...
Two Great Books for Two Dollars
I thoroughly enjoyed N.D. Wilson's Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl and Death By Living. And they're $0.99 each right now on Kindle.