A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America by John A. D'Elia My rating: 4 of 5 stars George Eldon Ladd dedicated his life to the goal of a “rehabilitated evangelicalism, in both content and image.” (176) He...
Mark Ward
Amazing Crossway E-Book Sale
For one week, all of Crossway's e-books are $5.99. Even the massive Kingdom Through Covenant, normally $31 even as an e-book, is just six bucks. (I also elected to pick up Sojourners and Strangers.) I recommend spending some time looking through the long list of...
Review: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life by Douglas Wilson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I try to be scrupulous in my use of the five stars allotted to me by the gentle people of Goodreads. Five stars means "it was amazing." And I can't honestly say that about this book....
Alain de Botton
However, anyone who has experienced the power of sex in general and internet pornography in particular to reroute our priorities is unlikely to be so sanguine about liberty. Pornography, like alcohol and drugs, weakens our ability to endure the kinds of suffering that...
Usage Determines Meaning, Even in Esperanto
I just read a fascinating book recommended to me by Alan Jacobs, an English prof at Wheaton who recently completed the task of reading literally every book there is. This particular book was Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars,...
Donate to Wikipedia
I admit to being somewhat cheap. If I can use an online service for free, I generally do so. I've never paid Dropbox a cent (though I've come close, and I've sent them a lot of customers). But the laborer is worthy of his hire, the Bible says, and there are a few...
Review: Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry by Paul David Tripp My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked this book for pastors (I'm sort of a pastor). I really did. It's an excellent book. But it gets three stars because, searching my heart of...
Randy Leedy on Greek Pedagogy
Logos Bible Software has put out a new first-year Greek/Hebrew course that is apparently selling like hotcakes and promises to eliminate memorization of vocab and paradigms and focus immediately on language use in exegesis and sermon prep. Rod Decker's most recent...
I’ve Always Thought the Same About Nick Kristof
Check out Freakonomics' Stephen J. Dubner on the fair-minded liberal Nick Kristof, and don't miss this special quote from some other guy at the end: People have often said that politics has been the religion of the 20th century, and I think there’s a lot to that. In...
Neil Postman on the Story That We Need
In the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all...