I originally wrote this article for the New York Times opinion page, but it wound up in a slightly less partisan publication, Answers Magazine. (To be clear, the article has been edited a bit to reflect the change of audience.) I just got my copy: [gallery...
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Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption
I finally got my copy. It's the culmination of my nine years at BJU Press and the one book of mine most likely to actually get read: Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption, a 12th grade Bible textbook for Christian and home schools. But I can't say the book is...
Ken Myers Binge
I’ve been on a Ken Myers listening binge. Mars Hill Audio Journal, the fantastic Epiphany Lectures he gave on music at New St. Andrews College, and now a series of lectures and panel discussions on culture and music (and, as always, the givenness of creation) that he...
Mars Hill Audio Journal
I finally found the space in my book budget to subscribe to the Mars Hill Audio Journal, and I can't believe my first listen is already complete. Myers knows how to pick 'em. Every one of the six interviews in vol. 126 was right up my alley. James W. Skillen, on the...
A Warm-Up for Tomorrow’s Post Mentioning Sacred Music in Secular Society
This is fantastic singing, so much sound from such a small group, and this happens to be one of my favorite choral pieces in existence, perhaps my very favorite.
Everybody’s a Separatist
Everybody draws the line somewhere. Centered set or bounded set, there's a line out there they won't cross. The question is whether or not that line will be established by Scripture. Roger Olson, in the post I just linked to, does a good job showing why the prosperity...
Sing a Better Song Apologetics
I thought this was a really great illustration from my friend Jeremy Larson: When Odysseus schemed to evade the Sirens, whose beautiful song enchanted and ultimately destroyed sailors, he had his crew put wax in their ears and ordered them tie him to the mast. The...
Review: Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage
Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage by John McWhorter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Absolutely loved this. McWhorter is a brilliant lecturer (and at 1.75 speed, he sounds superhumanly brilliant). As I began, however, I wasn't sure how much more McWhorter had to...
Review: Building a Timeless House in an Instant Age
Building a Timeless House in an Instant Age by Brent Hull My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this because my wife and I are about to buy our third house and I wanted wisdom. Our second house, it turns out, was very well made in 1948. We already miss it and we haven't yet...
Never Knowing Where We’re Going We Can Never Go Astray
Read this while poking around the Internet for philosopher Richard Rorty's obituary: Michael Williams, philosophy department chairman at Johns Hopkins University, said Dr. Rorty, one of his mentors, "taught the lesson there are no fixed and permanent foundations for...
Who Wrote the Formula?
So one member of a lesbian couple decides she needs a man, and her partner agrees to bring one into the relationship. ABC News has the story. They are now polyamorists, the parents of two babies, and crusaders in the cause of getting their sexual choices and family...
The Grand Narrative of Scientism
From Oxford historian of science Peter Harrison's (so-far excellent and fascinating) The Territories of Science and Religion: The history of science, on one very common understanding, has three distinct stages. Science is said to have had its origins in Greek...