My respected friend Joel Arnold probably does need to leave this country, as he currently plans to do. What he says is downright un-American: Believers have not obeyed God's commands until they are willing to make authoritative and spiritually guided application of...
Mission
Stanley Fish Paper Published in Answers Research Journal
I've been kind of super excited about this... I have finally thrown my tiny pebble into the pond! Now I'm just waiting to watch the ripples. Well, it's probably more like this: I have finally thrown my grain of sand into the ocean! Now I'm just waiting to be bitten by...
The Kingdom of Christ
I'm embarrassed to say I did not know this, more embarrassed to admit that I never thought to ask: The move toward a Kingdom theology [among both covenantalists and dispensationalists] ... accounts for the name of the newer form of dispensationalism. It is called...
Moral Esperanto
I shared with you not long ago MacIntyre's opening illustration in After Virtue, an illustration drawn from Canticle for Leibowitz. In it, all scientists are killed in retribution for a nuclear holocaust. Over time, people try to regain the language of science. They...
Why Won’t Non-Christians Listen to Our Evidence?
This quote has been bouncing around in my head a lot since I read it a few weeks ago. It's John Frame, presuppositionalist apologist, responding to Gary Habermas, evidentialist apologist: The attitude of many [non-Christian] people today is that, whatever Habermas and...
Doug Wilson vs. Andrew Sullivan: Must-See Debate for All Christians
How can you argue about homosexual marriage in the American public square but yet argue from Scripture—while still making appropriately couched appeals to scientific studies? Listen to Doug Wilson debating gay conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan (whose blog I used to...
Review: Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels
Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J. Warner Wallace My rating: 3 of 5 stars UPDATE: This book is currently free for Kindle. Caveat I could tell by reading the promo material for Cold-Case Christianity that this book...
Ethan Watters in Must-Read Article about WEIRD Westerners (http://bit.ly/12Ei6M3)
A modern liberal arts education gives lots of lip service to the idea of cultural diversity. It’s generally agreed that all of us see the world in ways that are sometimes socially and culturally constructed, that pluralism is good, and that ethnocentrism is bad. But...
An Insight from Lesslie Newbigin
I laughed out loud at the bolded portion below. This shows some real insight. Recently I have heard on several occasions Christians accusing one another, either of too much certainty, or of too little. We are all familiar with both accusations. There is, on the one...
Kenneth L. Woodward, Longtime Catholic Journalist for Newsweek, Reflecting on the Changes Brought by Vatican II (First Things, “Reflections on the Revolution in Rome,” Feb 2013, p. 30)
In place of my much-loved Latin hymns and chants, the new liturgists bade us sing old Reformation anthems like "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." I could not bring myself to join in when the chosen hymn was "Amazing Grace"—in fact, I still refuse to do so. It's a lovely...
Natural Law
A growing (?) number of conservative evangelicals are becoming aware of natural law arguments in the public square. These arguments are attractive because We know from experience that bringing up the Bible directly in public debates won't likely get us anywhere. The...
How to Work Christianly
My esteemed coworker, Rachel Santopietro, is one of the three "stars" of this edifying video. And what she describes is what I do: I help Christian textbook authors integrate the Bible naturally and powerfully (at least that's the ideal!) into subjects from which...