ESV Reader’s Bible
Manifesto signatories, our voice has been heard! I'm super excited for the May, 2014 release! Crossway even used the title we suggested: "Reader's Bible." I'm going to try to figure out how this came about and whether our manifesto made any difference or was just another drop lost in the vast Internet bucket. This promo copy certainly makes it sound like the manifesto struck a chord: The ESV Reader’s Bible was created for those who want to read Scripture precisely as it was originally written...
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 Research Journal. Needless to say, Rational Wiki views ARJ as a convenient punching bag. But I was surprised at how evenhanded some of the summarizing was. Without further ado, here is their summary of my little paper:...
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 add that His presence was with the apostles until the end of the age (Matt 28:20) if He meant for the Great Commission to be accomplished in one generation? (I've also heard interpreters suggest that the Great Commission has...
Review: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B.R. Myers My rating: 3 of 5 stars I'm not qualified to offer an evaluation of the book, per se; I've never read a contrary viewpoint (unless you count Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy—but that's a little bit apples to oranges). I can say that his thesis was clear and, as far as I can see (see previous disclaimer about how far that is), well-supported. Myers is saying that the North Korean people are complicit in their...
Review: Crazy Busy, by Kevin DeYoung
What do you get when you put together a gifted, kind of techie young communicator from the culturally conservative end of the neo-Reformed spectrum with a contemporary topic like our culture's crazy busyness? This book had the feel of one that wrote itself—to take nothing away from that young communicator, Kevin DeYoung. He said all the things he was expected to say and yet managed to hold my interest the entire time. He also managed to write a Young, Restless, Reformed self-help book. And it...