An Admitteldy One-Sided Conversation on Theological Liberalism
A liberal Catholic with a PhD from a liberal Catholic institution saw my article in Answers Magazine critiquing one of the more famous put-downs Richard Dawkins has made of Christians; he liked the article and wanted to dialogue with me. I acquiesced, but soon found that he liked my article's arguments for their apparent utility without really grasping their biblical origins. When it comes down to it, he rejects the authority of Scripture in what I take to be a more dangerous way than Dawkins...
BJU on CSPAN
BJU was featured on CSPAN along with other Greenville features. I enjoyed hearing the history of Falls Park, too.
Ten Years with a Precious, Precious Treasure
An important ten-year anniversary passed without my noticing, and I'd like to make up for my failure to mark it with this little post. Paul McCusker's Focus on the Family Radio Theatre adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia is truly one of the greatest gifts to the Christian church I know of—at least to those elements of the church which travel in minivans. This is a family favorite—no the family favorite. McCusker, unlike the directors of the three ill-fated Narnia films (all of them known...
Review: You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K.A. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars You are what you love, not what you think, Smith says. What you think is, rather, a fruit of what you love. So far so good. If I may say so, I felt like Smith was summarizing my dissertation (though with fewer Scripture proofs) at this point in his argument (largely the first chapter). But then he went in a direction I've been watching him go in for some years and have not yet quite known what to do...
Review: The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist by Larry Alex Taunton My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was really excellent. It was level-headed, insightful, interesting. There's no way I would have read a Thomas Nelson book on this topic by an author I didn't know if Doug Wilson in Books & Culture and someone at the Gospel Coalition hadn't praised it so highly. I would have assumed that it was some dewy-eyed evangelical wish-fulfillment book in which...