Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption now has a promo page on bjupress.com. If you haven't yet purchased a copy, you will want to do so now that there is a promo page. Bryan Smith, the presenter on the video there, is the one whose vision I was trying to live...
Mark Ward
How to Listen to YouTube Lectures as Podcasts
Update: I have a massively revised version of this set of tips here. I am all the time seeing YouTube lectures I want to listen to—that's right, listen to, not watch. I just can't watch a YouTube lecture. I'm distracted by all the other things I need to do on my...
Absolute Must Read
I have been swept away. This article by Allen Guelzo (whose dissertation benefited my own, and whose work on Lincoln and the Civil War is waiting for me on my Kindle) is a must-read for every Christian academic. If there's anything in the world wrong with it, I can't...
Gunton on Epistemology
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...
Special Deal on Frame’s New Book: $32 Shipped
I like John Frame a lot. He helps me put my Bible together with my worldview. I just reviewed his new book, A History of Western Philosophy and Theology, and a friend of mine at Grace Books (Carlisle, PA) let me know that they have a special going where you can get it...
Mark Ward on the Concordance Tool on Faithlife Today
Read the article I wrote (referenced in the video) here.
Review: A History of Western Philosophy and Theology
A History of Western Philosophy and Theology by John M. Frame My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have read some but not all of the philosophers John Frame canvasses in this book. That almost certainly describes you, too. So you’re probably in precisely the same boat I’m in...
Sacred Social Science
I thought the following quotations from Ken Myers' interview with Christian Smith were so valuable that I took them down word-for-word. Smith is the author, most recently, of The Sacred Project of American Sociology. This is from the book (taken down from Myers'...
Insightful Quotation from Francis Spufford
This quotation has really caught my fancy recently as a good summary of the way conservative Christians are viewed by the surrounding culture in Western nations: Believers aren’t weird because we’re wicked. We’re weird because we’re inexplicable; because, when there’s...
Article in Answers Magazine
I originally wrote this article for the New York Times opinion page, but it wound up in a slightly less partisan publication, Answers Magazine. (To be clear, the article has been edited a bit to reflect the change of audience.) I just got my copy: [gallery...