This thought has really stuck with me since I read it some weeks ago: It's belief [and not unbelief] that involves the most uncompromising attention to the nature of things of which you are capable. Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while...
Mark Ward
Fish Is Brain Food
Stanley Fish is a legal scholar, and as best I can tell, he got into that line of work because of his fascination with interpretation in general—he started out as a literary critic and theorist. Law certainly furnishes many fascinating case studies, and when judges...
Announcing Bible Truths B: The Story of the Old Testament
A Christ-Centered Bible Bryan Chapell helped revolutionize my thinking about the Old Testament when I read his Christ-Centered Preaching for a required expository preaching course in seminary. He came up with a great way to name—and spot—the problem of moralism in...
New International Reader’s Version and Evangelism
I run a weekly outreach ministry mainly attended by lower-income adults with low educational and reading levels. The KJVs they got who-knows-where are often unintelligible to them, but they seem to truly want to learn and understand. (They listen so much better than...
How to Write Multiple-Choice Questions
Not the most exciting post for my readership, perhaps, but you two could improve any teaching you do if you learned about it: multiple choice questions. My supervisor, Brad Batdorf, Ed.D., recently gave a talk on the subject and gave me permission to share with you...
Thomas Nagel
Even those who cannot accept the theist alternative should admit that Plantinga’s criticisms of naturalism are directed at the deepest problem with that view—how it can account for the appearance, through the operation of the laws of physics and chemistry, of...
Review: The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness
The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness by Kevin DeYoung My rating: 4 of 5 stars J. I. Packer recently said in an interview with Desiring God, There are writers who think that simply by crisp, orthodox formulations...
Stanley Fish Interviews Dinesh D’Souza, President of Evangelical Kings College
Stanley Fish interviews Dinesh D'Souza: S.F.: Some readers characterized the King’s College, of which you are the president, as “barely above correspondence level,” a place where little science except creationist science is taught, a venue for the promotion of...
Remembering 9/11
It always bothered me that our president told us to go shopping after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. I felt as patriotic as perhaps ever I did on that day and in its immediate aftermath, and yet I couldn't rally behind a call like that one. In the years since, I've...
Vote for Me!
Today I opened the New York Times to find a little article by Notre Dame philosophy prof Gary Gutting on "What Work Is Really For." At the beginning of his piece, I read, We applaud people for their work ethic, judge our economy by its productivity and even honor work...