An otherwise wise and helpful column from David Brooks—a column noting that it's somewhat hypocritical for American liberals to defend Charlie Hebdo's anti-Muslim provocations—takes an epistemologically naive turn at this point: Provocateurs and ridiculers expose the...
Mark Ward
Good Book Two Bucks
I really enjoyed Death by Living (and its precursor, Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl), and it's just two bucks now on Kindle. Here's my review of Death By Living.
Kenan Malik on Liberalism’s Interpretation of Islamic Extremism
I've been waiting for a long time for someone to say what I've been thinking about radical Islam, and now writer Kenan Malik has done it. On the one hand, he points out, Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias...
Condescending to Men of Low Estate
Stereotyping and prejudice are endemic to humanity. Conservatives have done it (and do it), and secularists it have done it (and do it). Your vision of a group colors your interpretation of actions performed by individuals in that group. It takes a conscious effort at...
Site Stats for 2014
A few of my most dedicated readers may find this annual By Faith We Understand WordPress blog report interesting.
Five Responses to the Newsweek Screed
The 9,000-word, Merry-Christmas, anti-Christian Newsweek screed opens with the following attempt at journalistic objectivity: They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of...
Christian Apologetics Already Ceding Ground to Secularism
I'm really enjoying James K. A. Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. Smith is a guide to Protestants who want some help from Taylor's massive A Secular Age but who don't have the gumption to wade through it all. And I just keep highlighting and...
The Odd Bible Translation Situation We’re In
The Book of Mormon (1830) and the Pickthal translation of the Qur'an (1930), both completed long after "thee" and "thou" faded from common English usage, both adopted the archaic syntactical and grammatical forms used in the KJV. Why? Here's the Book of Mormon: Holy,...
Affection Drives Cognition
As we say at BJU Press, affection drives cognition. And it's nice to hear scientistic materialists coming close to saying so. Frequently they arrive at truth despite themselves because, even if they suppress it, their microscopes are still by necessity trained on...
Review: A Grammar of New Testament Greek: Volume 3: Syntax
A Grammar of New Testament Greek: Volume 3: Syntax by Nigel Turner My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm not really fit to compare Greek grammars. I read this one (carefully) for class as I was obliged to do. Whatever Turner's value compared to his competitors, I, at least, got...