Kevin Bauder on Institutional Lifestyle Rules
I have often thought that an incisive mind could come up with a genuinely helpful, edifying, and (I see now) "critically collaborative" take on the lifestyle rules at the various Christian schools I've attended. Why do those rules seem to help some Christian students but confuse and/or puff up the pride of others? I think I’d put myself in the first category, without denying that the second may have been true of me at times, too. My numerous infractions my sophomore year of college led to a...
Alan Jacobs: The Hermeneutics of Love
Anything combining love and epistemology fascinates me, so I've thought of the following excerpt from Alan Jacobs' challenging book A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love many times. If he or his publisher believes that including an excerpt of this length (I can't remember the length of the Kindle excerpt) is detrimental to their sales rather than helpful, I will immediately take it down. But I don't think that will happen, rather the reverse. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act...
BibleWorks News
This just in from the BJU Campus Store: The Campus Store is offering a special price on BibleWorks to qualified individuals through the BibleWorks Institutional Promotion Program (IPP). For a limited time you can place an order to receive BibleWorks on DVD for $259 plus tax and/or shipping if applicable (regular price is $359). This special promotion is available only to Students, Faculty/Staff and Alumni of Bob Jones University and is limited to one item per qualified individual. The...
Roger Scruton on Two Kinds of Kitsch
Penetrating conservative philosopher Roger Scruton writes, Kitsch art ... is designed to put emotion on sale: it works as advertisements work, creating a fantasy world in which everything, love included, can be purchased, and in which every emotion is simply one item in an infinite line of substitutes. The clichéd kiss, the doe-eyed smile, the Christmas-card sentiments: all advertise what cannot be advertised without ceasing to be. They commit the salesman to nothing. They can be bought and...
ESV Study Bible Online—FREE for Limited Time
I use the ESV website 15-50 times a day, and having the ESV Study Bible as part of it is regularly valuable. Click here to get it for free as part of Crossway's 75th anniversary celebration.