Probably Not Funny
What if the Scientologists took over the Wilds? What would the new Ken Collier’s favorite saying be? Just two choices in the cupboard: pleasing self or L. Ron Hubbard.
The Most Influential Conservative Christian Thinker in America
Robert P. George was recently christened by the New York Times as “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker”—and Richard John Neuhaus’ heir. But take a look at the foundation of his ethics: In the American culture wars, George wants to redraw the lines. It is the liberals, he argues, who are slaves to a faith-based “secularist orthodoxy” of “feminism, multiculturalism, gay liberationism and lifestyle liberalism.” Conservatives, in contrast, speak from the high ground of...
Carson on the Parables
Pregnant wives sometimes simply cannot make it to church, so the last time we missed a Sunday sermon we listened to D. A. Carson on the purpose of Jesus’ parables. Carson was, as always, biblically responsible and helpful. He said that Jesus had many reasons for telling parables. He wasn't anti-propositional. He wasn't just being a good homiletician. He wasn't merely judging some people or being enigmatic. He was doing a mix of things. Carson argued from Matthew 13 that Jesus tells parables......
Righteousness and True Healthiness
James Barr in the iconoclastic The Semantics of Biblical Language: A regular church-goer is likely sooner or later to hear an interpretation of the word “holy,” which is of course frequent in the English Bible, as “basically” or “originally” or “properly” meaning “healthy, sound.” Those alarmed by the suggestion of superhuman religious effort in the exhortation to “be holy” may thus be comforted, because what is being asked of them is simply the basic “healthiness” or “soundness” which no one...
Web MD
The David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Recording Trust has got a new look since the last time I surfed over there. Check it out.