A liberal Catholic with a PhD from a liberal Catholic institution saw my article in Answers Magazine critiquing one of the more famous put-downs Richard Dawkins has made of Christians; he liked the article and wanted to dialogue with me. I acquiesced, but soon found...
Mark Ward
BJU on CSPAN
BJU was featured on CSPAN along with other Greenville features. I enjoyed hearing the history of Falls Park, too.
Ten Years with a Precious, Precious Treasure
An important ten-year anniversary passed without my noticing, and I'd like to make up for my failure to mark it with this little post. Paul McCusker's Focus on the Family Radio Theatre adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia is truly one of the greatest gifts to the...
Review: You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K.A. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars You are what you love, not what you think, Smith says. What you think is, rather, a fruit of what you love. So far so good. If I may say so, I felt like Smith was...
Review: The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist by Larry Alex Taunton My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was really excellent. It was level-headed, insightful, interesting. There's no way I would have read a Thomas Nelson book on...
A Must-Read Article on Female Characters in Popular Culture
Excerpts from a lengthy, incisive, must-read from Alastair Roberts: The supposed shallowness of pop culture is deceptive: It is a realm where brilliant and talented people go to try to shape minds at their most unguarded and impressionable. It is on the ground of...
Denying What Anyone Can See
Here's what strikes me about this oft-shared-on-my-timeline video: Christians (and creationists in particular) have been roundly criticized by scientific naturalism for denying "what anyone can see with their two eyes," for denying the "clear evidence" against the...
$9.99 for Three Good Audio Books
Here's a great deal on some good books from Christian Audio (I've read only Spiritual Disciplines, but I have reason to believe the others are also valuable). Also, I like the cover designs of the newer two...
Freedom from Inerrancy?
X, a friend of a friend, wrote an autobiographical tale of his journey from Protestant fundamentalism to the evangelical parachurch and into a (currently) non-inerrantist, post-evangelical view which is indebted to people like Kenton Sparks and Peter Enns. I won't...
Anybody Else See a Problem with This Cover and The Description?
Anybody else see a problem with the cover and the description on this old book?