A Linguistic Note for Christmas
Blueberries are blue but cranberries are not cran. —Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
Bible People Love Books
Just discovered in a WordPress plugin the most popular words on my blog. I'm not sure if I'm proud of this list or not. Jesus ought to be higher...
Thank You, Stephen Jones
I had a unique vantage point for today's announcement from Stephen Jones that he would step down due to his ongoing health trials (see official word from BJU here). I was sitting on the FMA platform behind him waiting to receive my ten-year service award (a cool Seiko solar watch with the new BJU emblem on it!). I suppose what was unique about my vantage point was mainly that I could see Dr. Jones' back and nothing else, but I still felt closer to the action somehow. And there on that stage I...
The Invisible Child
I read this whole NY Times investigative series (and see the Public Editor's comments on it here) and found it helpful and insightful for my own ministry in an urban setting.
Charles Hodge on Roman Catholic Idolatry
I recently found some genuine insight, new to me at least, in Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology. I offer it here not merely so you can stack up some ammo for debate, ammo you may never get to use anyway, but so you yourself can by God's grace obey the second of the ten commandments. I'll be preaching on that commandment next week, and I'm very excited to dig into it again. My only possible criticism of Hodge is that he sets up a definition of idolatrous worship by which he evaluates Catholic...