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  • Derek Kidner in The Message of Ecclesiastes: As to man’s dignity, what is so mortifying (an appropriate word!) about death’s final…
    January 16, 2015

  • Terrible weather postponed this conference when it was first planned last year (or was it two years ago?). Now it's…
    January 16, 2015

  • The myth of neutrality isn't just a not-true-idea kind of myth. It's also a powerful-organizing-story kind of myth. The myth of…
    January 16, 2015

  • I just love Philip Glass. The Grid is my favorite piece (followed closely by Renfield and other music written for piano).…
    January 15, 2015

  • I find it sad and discreditable that certain crowds of Christians, we fundamental Baptists prominent among them, hand out honorary doctorates…
    January 14, 2015

  • An otherwise wise and helpful column from David Brooks—a column noting that it's somewhat hypocritical for American liberals to defend…
    January 9, 2015

  • I really enjoyed Death by Living (and its precursor, Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl), and it's just two bucks now on Kindle.…
    January 8, 2015

  • I've been waiting for a long time for someone to say what I've been thinking about radical Islam, and now writer Kenan…
    January 5, 2015

  • Stereotyping and prejudice are endemic to humanity. Conservatives have done it (and do it), and secularists it have done it…
    December 30, 2014

  • A few of my most dedicated readers may find this annual By Faith We Understand WordPress blog report interesting.
    December 30, 2014

  • The 9,000-word, Merry-Christmas, anti-Christian Newsweek screed opens with the following attempt at journalistic objectivity: They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations…
    December 26, 2014

  • I'm really enjoying James K. A. Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. Smith is a guide to Protestants…
    December 22, 2014

  • The Book of Mormon (1830) and the Pickthal translation of the Qur'an (1930), both completed long after "thee" and "thou" faded from common…
    December 17, 2014

  • As we say at BJU Press, affection drives cognition. And it's nice to hear scientistic materialists coming close to saying…
    December 12, 2014

  • A Grammar of New Testament Greek: Volume 3: Syntax by Nigel Turner My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm not really…
    December 8, 2014

  • The most helpful stuff on contemporary worship music I've read comes from those trained to discern the meaning of cultural…
    December 7, 2014

  • I've been looking for wisdom on events in Ferguson. I have tried not to confuse my white, redheaded, middle class…
    December 3, 2014

  • There have been some really great Kindle deals on worthwhile books this last week. What did I actually buy? Somehow I…
    December 1, 2014

  • Have you ever heard a boy soprano? In real life they quaver a lot, but in Britain they're awesome—especially together. I…
    November 28, 2014

  • The myth of neutrality is one of the most important ideas a Christian can get hold of in this secular…
    November 28, 2014