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Epistemological Naïveté and Hubris
Tanya M. Luhrmann is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times with a Ph.D. from Cambridge and a professorship…
April 27, 2015
Fiddlesticks and Lexicography
What do you do if you’re not sure what a word means? Wait for it... You look it up in…
April 22, 2015
BibleWorks 10
It's out. What's new. More later.
April 20, 2015
Discrimination
I saw this sidebar at The Atlantic not too long ago. Notice the first item: The article itself doesn't use the…
April 18, 2015
The Most Important Thing You’ll Read Today Beyond Holy Writ
I may be at risk of becoming the boy who cried "Read This," but this point from Mark Bauerlein about…
April 14, 2015
If Humans Were Really Just Robots
Skeptical humanist writer Kurt Vonnegut wrote an experimental novel, Breakfast of Champions, in which he told one of his characters, Dwayne…
April 10, 2015
New Kevin DeYoung Book
Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015), 158 pp. Here's a PDF sample, and here’s a study…
April 7, 2015
A Pair of Absolute Must-Read New York Times Opinion Columns on Homosexuality
1. Bruni This is what a lot of people genuinely think about the conservative Christian view of homosexuality. You need…
April 5, 2015
An Excellent and Important Point by Russell Moore
I find this point by Russell Moore to be very helpful and insightful: Many of those leading the discussion of…
March 30, 2015
Kurt Aland Says “Nein” to Textual Errors in the New Testament
Interesting video featuring legendary New Testament textual critic Kurt Aland: At the very end of the video there is an interview…
March 30, 2015
Wise Observation from Ken Myers
C.S. Lewis said one of the distinctive aspects of the modern mind is the assumption that newer things are always…
March 27, 2015
Our Embarrassment of Translational Riches
We have an embarrassment of riches in our English Bible translations. Today I was texting a particular man whom my church's…
March 24, 2015
Worldview and Sexuality: Ideas Have Consequences
View image | gettyimages.com Jennifer Roback Morse, in an excellent article on the Sexual Revolution: The modern world is living…
March 20, 2015
A Real-Life Heather on Her Two Mommies
An important insight from a real-life Heather with two mommies, who writes with empathy and respect for her mother, but who…
March 20, 2015
I ♥ C.S. Lewis
My Kindle library of Lewis titles (most of which were $2 or so, thanks to Gospel Ebooks):
March 20, 2015
Three Good Reasons to Resist Making Relativism Our Latest Bogeyman
Merold Westphal on hermeneutics and relativism: We are easily frightened by the specter of "anything goes," and there is no…
March 19, 2015
This is What We Pay Andrée Seu For
Excellent, from Andrée Seu Peterson: Sometimes I wonder if the inventors of the other LGBT brand are a tad embarrassed.…
March 19, 2015
Most Popular Bible Verses by Country
YouVersion tells us that these are the most popular Bible verses by country: I feel guilty for complaining about people's…
March 17, 2015
A Little Internet Wisdom
So true, from a CT movie reviewer: The trick to writing on the Internet and getting heard is making a…
March 9, 2015
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice About Contemporary English, Don’t Say Anything At All
When it comes to our common tongue, says Ammon Shea, “there are two things that have remained constant. The English…
March 8, 2015