United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity by Trillia J. Newbell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I watched Trillia speaking to Thabiti Anyabwile in an author interview and decided I wanted to buy this book. Ms. Newbell impressed me with her bright Christian countenance...
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Profound Insight on Power from Andy Crouch
God made His image-bearers kings and queens over creation (Gen. 1:26–28). But we know what Lord Acton said: that kind of absolute power corrupts. And it surely has done so, in places all over the world. People do things to this planet, and to their fellow...
Poythress: Absolute Truth Is Relative In Certain Respects
Wise and careful words about truth from Vern Poythress' Symphonic Theology (free online here): While truth is absolute, any one human being’s knowledge of the truth is relative in certain respects. First, knowledge of the truth is not exhaustive knowledge of all...
Hole In Our Holiness 99¢ Today and Tomorrow
I enjoyed real personal, spiritual and theological profit from this book. Today and tomorrow it's just 99¢ on Kindle. Here's my review.
Error in the Oxford English Dictionary?
I wrote this note to the OED folks a few days ago regarding the screenshot above. Anyone have another explanation? I'd rather not believe that the OED committed an error! Dear Sirs: I regret to inform you that you may have an error in your otherwise invaluable...
Review: Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me by Kevin DeYoung My rating: 3 of 5 stars Great stuff, no complaints. I always profit from DeYoung. He succeeded in showing, from the Bible, that the Bible is...
E. Nesbit on Proof
Searching for public domain books to read to my small son, I ran across E. Nesbit's Five Children and It. I remembered that Lewis expressed some appreciation for Nesbit, and I was delighted to hear in her some of the same wit and keen observation of children's ways...
Joshua 24:19
In 1809, when he was thirty-seven, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge paused to recall a youthful dream, a plan he had hatched fifteen years earlier to immigrate to America and start there a new society governed by his own homemade intellectual system, which he called...
The Correct Shape of the Petals in a TUDIP
I personally do not hold to the doctrine of limited atonement as I understand it. I can get there theologically, and the idea doesn't bother or offend me—but I can't get there exegetically. I find efforts to get around 1 John 2:2 to be just that. I have not made the...
Rob Lister’s Hermeneutical Method
In the opening pages of his God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion, Rob Lister pretty well sums up what I try to do every time I preach: The relevant biblical data needs to be interpreted with a conscious commitment to formulating...
Review: The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution
The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution by Wayne A. Grudem My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m not an economist. I’ve read precious few books on economic and political systems. But I try to listen in on the major conversations of the day, and a debate over the proper...
Review: What’s Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions
What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions by James N. Anderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a unique book, a choose-your-own-adventure book—yes, just like the ones you read when you were a kid, but written as non-fiction on an...