From Alan Jacobs: A great many other Christian colleges may well, in the coming decade or two, have to close their doors because they lack the financial resources and reputational stature to respond effectively to legal challenges, denial of federal student-loan...
Mark Ward
Robert Gagnon vs. J. Daniel Kirk on Homosexuality
Note: You can download a 279MB audio version here. Valley Presbyterian Church of Phoenix, Arizona, a congregation of the Presybterian Church (USA) is having a formal, church-wide discussion regarding whether or not active homosexual persons will be permitted to serve...
The Myth of Neutrality. Yet Again.
This from Alan Jacobs is real good. The myth of neutrality is one of the most useful insights I've ever been given, and the ability to spot belief in that myth is essential if you're going to be a reader. People's worldviews will out. If you don't believe me,...
Richard John Neuhaus on the Secular University
This comment from a brief article by the late Richard John Neuhaus is brilliant, and important: A secular university is not a university pure and simple; it is a secular university. Secular is not a synonym for neutral. Not to say that Jesus is Lord is not to say...
An Important Article for Pro-Life People to Read
This article by Ross Douthat is important for all pro-life people to read. He does two major things. 1) He shows why pro-life rhetoric should not be blamed for vigilantes (especially mad ones) like Robert Dear: Pretty much all passionate, justice-seeking movements...
Colin Gunton on Frameworks of Belief
All interpretation is shaped by the frameworks of belief which we bring to it; the hope is that the text—or rather the Holy Spirit’s opening up of the text—will enable us both to use and to transcend those frameworks with ever new insights into the truth of the...
Grace Her Fears Relieved: My Wife’s Salvation Testimony
Today my wife and I are joining Cornerstone Baptist Church of Anacortes, Washington—if the people will have us. As I proofread my wife's testimony of salvation through Christ, I knew I had to share it on the blog. I do so by permission. I was not born into a believing...
“There’s no God in Transformers!”
My wife and I do allow our children to watch some TV, but we often feel vaguely guilty about it, even though we’re super careful in what and how much they watch. Here’s one reason why we feel that guilt: my five-year-old son was watching his then favorite cartoon, a...
My New Job
My new job has mostly jelled: I am paid to put more words on the Internet. I write three to four pieces of content for Faithlife each week and provide sundry other consulting services inside and (a tiny bit, so far) outside the company as a part of a team called the...
Review: J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life
J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life by Leland Ryken My rating: 4 of 5 stars One of my favorite evangelical jokes showed up in a Christianity Today a number of years ago. It was an ad for a (fake) new book called The Collected Blurbs of J. I. Packer. The joke, if you...