Manifesto signatories, our voice has been heard! I'm super excited for the May, 2014 release! Crossway even used the title we suggested: "Reader's Bible." I'm going to try to figure out how this came about and whether our manifesto made any difference or was just...
Mark Ward
Rational Wiki Summarizes My Stanley Fish Paper
The skeptics and freethinkers over at Rational Wiki have done me the kindness of offering a one-line summary/review of my article on Stanley Fish's presuppositionalism. It was part of a list of many other of their summaries of articles in Answers in Genesis' Answers...
A Few Thoughts on the Great Commission
Last night, my pastor offered a few arguments against the idea that the Great Commission was given only to the apostles, or to their generation: How could that generation reach "all nations" (Matt 28) when the Western Hemisphere was yet undiscovered? Why would Jesus...
Review: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B.R. Myers My rating: 3 of 5 stars I'm not qualified to offer an evaluation of the book, per se; I've never read a contrary viewpoint (unless you count Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy—but...
Review: Crazy Busy, by Kevin DeYoung
What do you get when you put together a gifted, kind of techie young communicator from the culturally conservative end of the neo-Reformed spectrum with a contemporary topic like our culture's crazy busyness? This book had the feel of one that wrote itself—to take...
I’m Stuck
Henry Hazlitt (Economics in One Lesson) convinced me that protectionist policies are, in the long run, worse for everyone. Whether it be high tariffs or the (fictitious?) actions of Ned Ludd, protectionism is short-sighted because it fails to recognize that...
David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart with some wise words on the story of our times: The late modern picture of reality is, culturally speaking, something altogether unprecedented. In the days of, say, Thomas Aquinas, there was no particularly cogent alternative to seeing nature as a...
Another Verse I Never Understood
Another verse I never understood, and I'm pretty excited about this one. I can't exactly blame the King James, because I don't think the KJV translators did anything wrong. And the ESV and NASB translators did pretty much the same thing. Here's the verse, Psalm 16:6:...
BibleWorks Seminar for Upstate, SC
I'm putting on a BibleWorks training seminar Saturday, October 26th for the Upstate, SC area. Details and sign-up here.
Vote for Me!
Will you vote for my comment at the New York Times? I'm trying to practice what I preach, to use Stanley Fish's anti-liberalism as an opportunity for gospel proclamation—or at least emperor-nakedness proclamation.