In biblical scholar Peter Williams' excellent review of atheist Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Williams writes, Time and again Ehrman claims to be able to tell us...something of the theological convictions and...
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My Skagit Valley Herald Pro-Life Article
After I saw the Center for Medical Progress videos (I forced myself to watch every one), I knew I had to do something—something even more tangible than a vote—to combat the evil of abortion. I almost attended a protest at an abortion clinic in Greenville, but it just...
Conversion and Sanctification in Young Children in Christian Homes
From: J (used by permission) Sent: Thursday To: Mark L. Ward, Jr. I had a specific question that I wanted to ask you. Feel free to answer this at any time and to any extent that you are able. You mentioned to me once that [one of our respected mutual friends] had told...
Evolutionary Progress
Listening to C.S. Lewis on the bus this morning: Mechanism, like all materialist systems, breaks down at the problem of knowledge. If thought is the undesigned and irrelevant product of cerebral motions, what reason have we to trust it? As for emergent evolution, if...
ESV Reader’s Bible, Six-Volume Set
So excited! The ESV Reader's Bible is coming out in a Bibliotheca-like edition! As one of the top fifteen redheaded Bible typography enthusiasts in the nation (see my Bible Typography Manifesto and assorted other resources here), I can only go on record as saying,...
Ross Douthat Vs. Liberal Catholicism
Sometimes even I, Protestant though my bones be, wish for a pope—someone to solve all our hermeneutical difficulties and differences. In my favor, of course. But in exchange for the perfect unity a magisterial teaching authority would give us all, I would be willing...
The Just-So Story about Just-So Stories
We all view new ideas and experiences through our worldview lenses. Every time we turn around, Christians are explaining something through the lenses provided by the Bible, telling a story about God's goodness in our lives. Every time they turn around, believers in...
Excellent, Positive, Constructive Comment on what Conservatism Is
Roger Scruton: There is a kind of conservatism that sees all political questions as reducible to economics, with the free market as the ruling principle and the expansion of consumer choice as the only coherent political program. This way of looking at things can be...
“It Made My Body Feel Confused”
This GQ article on Carl Lentz and Hillsong NYC is enlightening. If the very definition of discernment is discriminating the good from the bad, let me start with the good: I watched the video and listened to Carl talk, and I liked a great deal of what I heard: biblical...
New York Times on Dressing for Success
Only science has the authority to tell us to dress differently than we want: For anyone who sees people as part of the job or wants to influence the behavior of others, the way we dress does matter. So let’s not kid ourselves. First, people judge us, at least in part,...