I think I have a good deal for someone who needs it! I'm trying to sell my copies of Parallels 6 and Windows Vista Business. They have worked admirably together on my iMac for quite some time (this software is guaranteed for dissertation production), but I no longer...
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C. S. Lewis on Epistemology
Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place...
Stanley Fish on Christian Worldliness
My interpretive community prefers to read this paragraph as a partial but excellent defense of Christian fundamentalism's separation from the world (in the Rom 12:2, 1 John 2:15–17 sense). My interpretive community prefers to read this as a spot-on description of...
I Agree with Charles Hodge
Biographer Andrew Hoffecker describing Charles Hodge's time in graduate school: He eventually came to the conclusions that graduate students must make for surviving. First, one cannot master everything…. Second, he came to the realization that a fundamental feature of...
Simple Carson Quote
I worry about ministries that focus just on correcting everyone. What I hope to do in all my writing is to promote the truth and proclaim it positively. When we correct, we do it because we think that the glory of God is being diminished. Part of a positive...
“Hotel Pornography and the Market of Morality” —Public Discourse
Catholic public intellectual Robert George and Muslim leader Shaykh Hamza Yusuf put out a call to hotels to stop selling pornography on demand. It harms our society, they say. Villanova law professor Robert Miller agrees, but points out that hotels have to be careful...
Esther’s Story, Our Story, and God’s: A Meditation
The book of Esther never mentions God. It doesn’t discuss temple services or sanctification or justification. And yet without these biblical ideas providing context, the story will make little sense—or the wrong sense! The teaching of Esther is all the more profound...
Verse Divisions in the Bible
All the elements of page and book design can be thought of as punctuation, even if some of them are not intended to have any effect on the reading. Verse division, for instance, is a reference system, yet it exerts a strong influence on how the text is read. —David...
A Quote Worth Saving
The writer [of NT epistles] does not announce a succession of revelations, or arrest the inquiries which he encounters in men’s hearts by the unanswerable formula, “Thus saith the Lord.” He arouses, he animates, he goes along with the working of men’s minds, by...
Puritans, Fundamentalists, and Evangelicals: A Question of Definition
Here's a great quote from Adam Nicolson's God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible: "A puritan is such a one," the London lawyer John Manningham wrote in 1602, "as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbour with all his heart." Anyone who took a...