One of the Most Amazing Websites I Have Ever Seen
The Ten Boom Museum website has a fantastic virtual tour; make sure to listen to the audio at each “station.” Tip: follow the arrows, or click the one at the right of all the icons in the center of the bottom menu. I was deeply moved by the Christian testimony of this family.
BJU Press in Logos
BJU Press has made many of its titles available in Logos Bible software, and there are a number of pre-pub collections gathering interest now: The Christian Living collection puts together a number of the booklets the Seminary has been putting out on various issues, along with Layton Talbert’s Not By Chance. The Pete Steveson commentary collection offers his volumes on Daniel, Isaiah, Proverbs, Psalms, and Ezra-Nehemiah-Esther. When I’ve used his Proverbs volume I’ve generally found it...
Politics Close-Up
Matt Bai cuts through some spin on both sides of the aisle and shows how each side can plausibly believe its own spin. He demonstrates with some intrepid reporting how politics actually happens on a personal level. Pretty fascinating, even for someone who often finds politics distasteful.
A Sop for Prescriptivists, OR, Language Change Isn’t All Bad
Wit, today, is Frasier Crane. (Or so I recall from my sad days as a surreptitious sitcom watcher in the 1990s. I don’t know who wit is now.) Wit is the capacity of someone to dazzle others with incisive, off-the-cuff, humorous comments or banter. Wit wasn’t always that, however—or at least wasn’t always only that. Wit, for a long time, was cognition, the faculty of thinking, the seat of consciousness. That’s why we have phrases like “half-wit,” “mother-wit,” and “at your wit’s end.” “Keeping...
Keller’s Answer to a Very Common Objection to Christianity
An exceedingly common evolutionary argument runs like this: “You can’t trust your religious feelings; they were just mechanisms developed by evolution that helped your ancestors survive.” Tim Keller gives a great answer: It proves too much. If that’s the case, then your logic itself—and your belief in evolution—is only a mechanism (or the fruit of one) that helped your ancestors survive. You can’t say it’s the truth, just a useful tool for spreading your gene pool.