The Ten Boom Museum website has a fantastic virtual tour; make sure to listen to the audio at each “station.” Tip: follow the arrows, or click the one at the right of all the icons in the center of the bottom menu. I was deeply moved by the Christian testimony of this...
Mark Ward
BJU Press in Logos
BJU Press has made many of its titles available in Logos Bible software, and there are a number of pre-pub collections gathering interest now: The Christian Living collection puts together a number of the booklets the Seminary has been putting out on various...
Politics Close-Up
Matt Bai cuts through some spin on both sides of the aisle and shows how each side can plausibly believe its own spin. He demonstrates with some intrepid reporting how politics actually happens on a personal level. Pretty fascinating, even for someone who often finds...
A Sop for Prescriptivists, OR, Language Change Isn’t All Bad
Wit, today, is Frasier Crane. (Or so I recall from my sad days as a surreptitious sitcom watcher in the 1990s. I don’t know who wit is now.) Wit is the capacity of someone to dazzle others with incisive, off-the-cuff, humorous comments or banter. Wit wasn’t always...
Keller’s Answer to a Very Common Objection to Christianity
An exceedingly common evolutionary argument runs like this: “You can’t trust your religious feelings; they were just mechanisms developed by evolution that helped your ancestors survive.” Tim Keller gives a great answer: It proves too much. If that’s the case, then...
Dale Ralph Davis on Micro-Salvation
Every time God lifts you out of the miry bog and sets your feet upon a rock is a sample of the coming of the kingdom of God, a down payment of the full deliverance, the macro-salvation that will be yours at last. 1 Samuel: Looking on the Heart, 25.
Read Fish
Read Fish. Now.
Google and Privacy
Every once in a while I give in to the temptation to write an assertive post despite believing firmly that there must be an alternative perspective of which I am unaware. I'm afraid I'm bowing to the rules of the blog genre: I'm posting this despite my ignorance. (I'm...
Dempster on Samson
A perceptive observation from a book full of such insights into the Old Testament: Stephen Dempster: The structure of Judges shows that Israel gradually descends into a moral and political quagmire, and this is mirrored in the sequence of judges themselves, most of...
Freeloading Atheists
Justice has to have strong foundations if it is to remain resilient in the face of the world’s many threats. Secularism denies having any ultimate, absolute foundations. Therefore it won’t be able to sustain any commitments to true justice. Any foundations it has are...