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Mark Ward Sr on Football
I thought my post on football might bring my father, with his careful reasoning, out of the woodwork; he didn't…
February 13, 2016
JA! In Which I Answer the Top Biblioblogger
Doug Wilson wrote a post asking a provocative question about Bible translations. I wrote a post for the Logos Talk Blog…
February 5, 2016
Football
I used to watch a lot of football growing up. It was our family thing on Sunday afternoons. I played…
February 4, 2016
Answering Joel Beeke on the KJV
I'm super late to the party on this one, but I just ran across an article by Joel Beeke offering…
February 1, 2016
Edwards Manuscripts
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, assisted by the Jonathan Edwards Center, recently completed a high-resolution scan of…
January 29, 2016
Bart Ehrman and King James Onlyism Share Two Important But Highly Contestable Presuppositions
In biblical scholar Peter Williams' excellent review of atheist Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and…
January 23, 2016
My Skagit Valley Herald Pro-Life Article
After I saw the Center for Medical Progress videos (I forced myself to watch every one), I knew I had…
January 18, 2016
Conversion and Sanctification in Young Children in Christian Homes
From: J (used by permission) Sent: Thursday To: Mark L. Ward, Jr. I had a specific question that I wanted…
January 15, 2016
Evolutionary Progress
Listening to C.S. Lewis on the bus this morning: Mechanism, like all materialist systems, breaks down at the problem of…
January 14, 2016
ESV Reader’s Bible, Six-Volume Set
So excited! The ESV Reader's Bible is coming out in a Bibliotheca-like edition! As one of the top fifteen redheaded Bible…
January 11, 2016
Ross Douthat Vs. Liberal Catholicism
Sometimes even I, Protestant though my bones be, wish for a pope—someone to solve all our hermeneutical difficulties and differences.…
January 8, 2016
The Just-So Story about Just-So Stories
We all view new ideas and experiences through our worldview lenses. Every time we turn around, Christians are explaining something through the…
December 31, 2015
Excellent, Positive, Constructive Comment on what Conservatism Is
Roger Scruton: There is a kind of conservatism that sees all political questions as reducible to economics, with the free…
December 29, 2015
“It Made My Body Feel Confused”
This GQ article on Carl Lentz and Hillsong NYC is enlightening. If the very definition of discernment is discriminating the…
December 29, 2015
New York Times on Dressing for Success
Only science has the authority to tell us to dress differently than we want: For anyone who sees people as…
December 23, 2015
From Alan Jacobs’ Sent Folder: Christian Education in the Legal Future
From Alan Jacobs: A great many other Christian colleges may well, in the coming decade or two, have to close…
December 22, 2015
Robert Gagnon vs. J. Daniel Kirk on Homosexuality
Note: You can download a 279MB audio version here. Valley Presbyterian Church of Phoenix, Arizona, a congregation of the Presybterian Church (USA)…
December 17, 2015
The Myth of Neutrality. Yet Again.
This from Alan Jacobs is real good. The myth of neutrality is one of the most useful insights I've…
December 8, 2015
Richard John Neuhaus on the Secular University
This comment from a brief article by the late Richard John Neuhaus is brilliant, and important: A secular university is…
December 5, 2015
An Important Article for Pro-Life People to Read
This article by Ross Douthat is important for all pro-life people to read. He does two major things. 1) He…
December 2, 2015