An important ten-year anniversary passed without my noticing, and I'd like to make up for my failure to mark it with this little post. Paul McCusker's Focus on the Family Radio Theatre adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia is truly one of the greatest gifts to the...
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Review: Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing by Andy Crouch My rating: 4 of 5 stars I loved Crouch's two major previous books, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling and Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. I felt this one was...
Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel by Kate Bowler My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'd had this book on my wishlist for a while; it seemed like the prosperity gospel was as popular as it was egregiously wrong—and it was increasing in both respects. It seemed...
JA! In Which I Answer the Top Biblioblogger
Doug Wilson wrote a post asking a provocative question about Bible translations. I wrote a post for the Logos Talk Blog answering that question. One of the top bibliobloggers out there just flatly contradicted my answer—the title of his is a (Barth-like) "NEIN!" I...
Answering Joel Beeke on the KJV
I'm super late to the party on this one, but I just ran across an article by Joel Beeke offering thirteen "Practical Reasons for Retaining the KJV." Dr. Beeke is respected for good reason, and I have profited in multiple ways from his ministry. He also avoids the...
Edwards Manuscripts
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, assisted by the Jonathan Edwards Center, recently completed a high-resolution scan of the entire Edwards Collections at both Yale University and Andover Newton Theological School. To view and use the scans, click...
ESV Reader’s Bible, Six-Volume Set
So excited! The ESV Reader's Bible is coming out in a Bibliotheca-like edition! As one of the top fifteen redheaded Bible typography enthusiasts in the nation (see my Bible Typography Manifesto and assorted other resources here), I can only go on record as saying,...
Ross Douthat Vs. Liberal Catholicism
Sometimes even I, Protestant though my bones be, wish for a pope—someone to solve all our hermeneutical difficulties and differences. In my favor, of course. But in exchange for the perfect unity a magisterial teaching authority would give us all, I would be willing...
“It Made My Body Feel Confused”
This GQ article on Carl Lentz and Hillsong NYC is enlightening. If the very definition of discernment is discriminating the good from the bad, let me start with the good: I watched the video and listened to Carl talk, and I liked a great deal of what I heard: biblical...
New York Times on Dressing for Success
Only science has the authority to tell us to dress differently than we want: For anyone who sees people as part of the job or wants to influence the behavior of others, the way we dress does matter. So let’s not kid ourselves. First, people judge us, at least in part,...
Robert Gagnon vs. J. Daniel Kirk on Homosexuality
Note: You can download a 279MB audio version here. Valley Presbyterian Church of Phoenix, Arizona, a congregation of the Presybterian Church (USA) is having a formal, church-wide discussion regarding whether or not active homosexual persons will be permitted to serve...
“There’s no God in Transformers!”
My wife and I do allow our children to watch some TV, but we often feel vaguely guilty about it, even though we’re super careful in what and how much they watch. Here’s one reason why we feel that guilt: my five-year-old son was watching his then favorite cartoon, a...