I'm holding another BibleWorks Seminar this Saturday, December 7, for those who couldn't make it to my bigger one a few weeks ago. I'm trying a community pricing model. I just need to make a certain amount of money to justify the work, and I'm happy to make that...
Mark Ward
What Rap Means
I was the first to post on a thread that developed into a major blogosphere brouhaha, and I spent some time trying to write out my own thoughts for that thread. But I prefer the obscurity of my own blog to the harsh spotlight Scott Aniol is now under (see his...
Freedom to Do What You Please
From a helpful article: An ideology that is only “about human freedom” is inadequate as a governing philosophy.... Responding to the praises that had been sung about the French Revolution because of its supposed establishment of liberty, [Edmund Burke] made the...
Vern Poythress and Level 3b
The BJU Press Bible Integration team, in which I am thankful to be an insignificant cog, uses a rubric of sorts to gauge whether or not we're really doing Bible integration. I've written about it before. We call it, informally, "the levels." The three levels of Bible...
Kidner
I just love Derek Kidner. This morning I was reading Psalm 89—the great psalm affirming the Davidic covenant—and I wanted some insight, so I sought him out. I wasn't disappointed: The foundation to this psalm is the great prophecy of 2 Samuel 7:4–17, at the heart of...
Kevin Bauder on Institutional Lifestyle Rules
I have often thought that an incisive mind could come up with a genuinely helpful, edifying, and (I see now) "critically collaborative" take on the lifestyle rules at the various Christian schools I've attended. Why do those rules seem to help some Christian students...
Alan Jacobs: The Hermeneutics of Love
Anything combining love and epistemology fascinates me, so I've thought of the following excerpt from Alan Jacobs' challenging book A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love many times. If he or his publisher believes that including an excerpt of this length (I...
BibleWorks News
This just in from the BJU Campus Store: The Campus Store is offering a special price on BibleWorks to qualified individuals through the BibleWorks Institutional Promotion Program (IPP). For a limited time you can place an order to receive BibleWorks on DVD for $259...
Roger Scruton on Two Kinds of Kitsch
Penetrating conservative philosopher Roger Scruton writes, Kitsch art ... is designed to put emotion on sale: it works as advertisements work, creating a fantasy world in which everything, love included, can be purchased, and in which every emotion is simply one item...
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