Christian Schools and Bible Integration
A Personal Narrative When I entered a Christian school in 1985, the movement it was part of was still young and full of excitement. The generation of teachers, principals, and pastors which began the several Christian schools I eventually attended was dedicated and deeply self-sacrificial. I praise their memory. And many of them are still around 30 years on. But today, I gather (somewhat unscientifically), the picture is a little different. There are still thousands of Christian workers who...
Pictures from Israel
CONTROVERSY! AGAIN!
Three controversies are going on right now among people close to me. The only one in which I’m involved personally hardly deserves the title, but it could have deserved a worse one—mêlée, fracas, altercation—if the participants had not loved the Lord and one another. During the years I had to write about controversy as part of my job, I made a habit of re-reading a letter John Newton wrote to a friend. This friend was about to engage in public debate over a doctrinal matter, and the letter is...
NICOT/NICNT Logos Discount for BJU Students and F/S
The New International Commentary was just added at my request to BJU’s Logos discount page. It’s now $1200 for students and professors instead of $1600. Of course, it pays to pre-pub, because it was once available for $1000.
Faerie and Metanarrative
JRR Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings, once commented that stories like his, at their best, serve as "a far-off gleam or echo of evangelium [the gospel] in the real world." And one famous conversation in his epic tale, one I pull out and read every so often, illuminates his comment. The main characters, Frodo and Sam, sit on the brink of Doom contemplating their story: "I don't like anything here at all." said Frodo, "step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem...