Readers of my blog know that I have a strong (and perhaps strange) affinity for Stanley Fish, the pragmatic, antifoundationalist literary theorist and classic public intellectual gadfly. I find him always stimulating and incisive, even when I disagree. But because his...
C.S. Lewis writes in his intro to his world-famous book, Mere Christianity, I hope no reader will suppose that ‘mere’ Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions—as if a man could adopt it in preference to...
I thoroughly enjoyed N.D. Wilson's Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl and Death By Living. And they're $0.99 each right now on Kindle.
David Brooks has responded in the New York Times to Rod Dreher’s just-out, “already-the-most-discussed-and-most-important-religious-book-of-the-decade” The Benedict Option. His response is not negative so much as graciously dismissive. He does this by labeling Dreher...
https://www.backtothebible.ca/indoubt/episode-044-can-smoke-pot-pt-2/
I enjoyed this first of two conversations with Isaac Dagneau of the indoubt podcast. I got to drive up to gloriously beautiful Abbotsford, B.C., to do the interview—only an hour and twenty minutes away from my house. Second one next week.
I have a new article out in the November-December issue of Modern Reformation. It's entitled "American Idol, American Culture, the Christian Church, and Your Bible Study." I explore the impact on the church of the Western cultural forces of "authenticity and...
Tomorrow (Wednesday), Sep 14, from 11:05–11:30 a.m. Eastern, I'll be on Kevin Boling's live, call-in radio show talking about the new book I co-authored with my friend Tom Breeden, Can I Smoke Pot? Marijuana in Light of Scripture. I've been surprised to see how much...
I once stood on the back porch of a run-down home in a neighborhood your realtor wouldn’t even take you to. (Trust me.) I was the leader of an evangelistic outreach ministry, and I was with a college freshman I was mentoring. I wonder now if we were talking to a...
“Scientists will often portray the Big Bang as if it were known fact, but it isn’t,” says Brian Clegg, a Cambridge-educated science writer. “It’s a theory within a very speculative field of science, cosmology, which is about as speculative as it gets. I’m not saying...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg My rating: 2 of 5 stars [Please note that some of the varnish has been removed from the following opinion, and I think I got down into the wood grain.] Since people are just complicated...