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...
Mission
Journalism at Its Best
Well-known New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein (with Jodi Kantor) did good homework on this interesting piece about female Mormon missionaries. The authors feed the story through a distinct narrative of their own, but what comes out is still well worth...
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...
Dr. Bob Jones Sr’s First Use of “All Ground Is Holy Ground”
The sayings of Dr. Bob Jones Sr are legendary around my alma mater. As a frequent victim of chronological snobbery, I was ready to be critical and dismissive of these statements when I first saw them tacked above chalkboards in classrooms. But I was won over by...
Review: Christ and Culture Revisited
Christ and Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Carson serves up reminder after reminder that the question of context is all-important both in the interpretation of scripture and in its application to our current situation(s). Where Niebuhr is a...
Rational Wiki Summarizes My Stanley Fish Paper
The skeptics and freethinkers over at Rational Wiki have done me the kindness of offering a one-line summary/review of my article on Stanley Fish's presuppositionalism. It was part of a list of many other of their summaries of articles in Answers in Genesis' Answers...
A Few Thoughts on the Great Commission
Last night, my pastor offered a few arguments against the idea that the Great Commission was given only to the apostles, or to their generation: How could that generation reach "all nations" (Matt 28) when the Western Hemisphere was yet undiscovered? Why would Jesus...
David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart with some wise words on the story of our times: The late modern picture of reality is, culturally speaking, something altogether unprecedented. In the days of, say, Thomas Aquinas, there was no particularly cogent alternative to seeing nature as a...
Vote for Me!
Will you vote for my comment at the New York Times? I'm trying to practice what I preach, to use Stanley Fish's anti-liberalism as an opportunity for gospel proclamation—or at least emperor-nakedness proclamation.
Christian Convert to Islam from Greenville, SC
Every once in a while an Internet rabbit trail leads to something exceptionally interesting. Yesterday I stumbled across the video above. I began to watch as Josh (now "Yusha") Evans related his testimony of conversion from Christianity to Islam. It turns out Josh is...
The Ten Tenets of a Covenantal Apologetic
I'm reading through Scott Oliphint's new Covenantal Apologetics. He's one of the few people with the stature to propose that the name "presuppositionalism" be dropped—and he may very well be successful. But his approach is clearly in the same tradition. "Covenantal"...
Review: Canon Revisited: Establishing The Origins And Authority Of The New Testament Books
Canon Revisited: Establishing The Origins And Authority Of The New Testament Books by Michael J. Kruger My rating: 5 of 5 stars For many years I have felt that canon was my Achilles' Heel as a Protestant (wannabe) theologian. I felt the sting of the charge that I am a...