Yesterday I got a surprise response on Twitter to my article, "Five Reasons Not to Sign the Evangelicals for Marriage Equality Petition," from the spokesperson for the group, Moody Bible Institute graduate Brandan Robertson. It's funny: during the interchange below I...
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Ivy League Mottoes
Ivy League Mottoes: Brown University In Deo Speramus (In God We Hope) Columbia University In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen (In Thy light shall we see light) Cornell University I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study. Dartmouth...
A Giant Leap for Mankind
Twenty-four men made it to the moon between 1969 and 1972. Only twenty-four men in history have seen the earth from the surface of another world. Here are the reflections of three of them on the significance of their experience (from 1:30:00ish in this fascinating...
Five Reasons not to Sign the Evangelicals for Marriage Equality Petition
It didn't take a prophet to predict this. So I'm not handing in my cessationist credentials when I point out that I did in fact say this was coming: an organized group of evangelical Christians has come out with a legal argument for same-sex "marriage," one which...
Review: Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this book because blogger Justin Taylor said professor Leland Ryken said I should. I was not disappointed. A few of the many coincidences stretched my ability to be immersed in the world Dickens...
Alone in the New America
This article describes the working-class demographic quite literally surrounding my church (with one notable exception, a gated community on the north side). The article offers an accurate diagnosis of their woes—through terribly sad anecdotes—and then an insufficient...
RACHE
It's not a very satisfying revenge, but an authoritative proofer nixed my favorite phrase in a little paragraph I just wrote for my current project at BJU Press, one focused on biblical worldview and the CFR metanarrative. This phrase must see the light of day—or,...
Review: Art and Music: A Student’s Guide
Art and Music: A Student's Guide by Paul Munson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was really an excellent little book. Accessible, perceptive, engaging, and rooted in that Christian intellectual tradition this little Crossway series is aiming to reclaim. It loses one star...
Grandiloquence and the KJV
I have long felt that this was the case, and it's nice to have it confirmed by someone with an ear for Hebrew as well developed as that of Robert Alter (scroll down to find his presentation), who's been reading the language since boyhood: Poetry in the King James...
Homosexuality and Worldview
I've spent the last year and a half immersed in understanding the Christian worldview and explaining it to twelfth graders. The last few days I've done a lot of writing on homosexuality (after many years of reading on the topic in articles and books), and I just came...