Review: The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness
The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness by Kevin DeYoung My rating: 4 of 5 stars J. I. Packer recently said in an interview with Desiring God, There are writers who think that simply by crisp, orthodox formulations of Bible truth and wisdom—without any searching application to the reader—they are fulfilling the full role of a Christian writer and that nothing more is required of them.... There are enough people around already who can...
Stanley Fish Interviews Dinesh D’Souza, President of Evangelical Kings College
Stanley Fish interviews Dinesh D'Souza: S.F.: Some readers characterized the King’s College, of which you are the president, as “barely above correspondence level,” a place where little science except creationist science is taught, a venue for the promotion of Christian doctrine rather than a genuine liberal arts college devoted to open inquiry. How would you characterize the college? Are you a creationist and do you believe, as one reader assumed you do, that the earth is 6,000 years old?...
Remembering 9/11
It always bothered me that our president told us to go shopping after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. I felt as patriotic as perhaps ever I did on that day and in its immediate aftermath, and yet I couldn't rally behind a call like that one. In the years since, I've felt my patriotism give way a little, to be honest. I'm not always proud of my country, and that doesn't necessarily change when the guy I vote for wins. My country as it exists today often leaves me with an ambivalence that's...
Vote for Me!
Today I opened the New York Times to find a little article by Notre Dame philosophy prof Gary Gutting on "What Work Is Really For." At the beginning of his piece, I read, We applaud people for their work ethic, judge our economy by its productivity and even honor work with a national holiday. But there’s an underlying ambivalence: we celebrate Labor Day by not working, the Book of Genesis says work is punishment for Adam’s sin, and many of us count the days to the next vacation and see a...