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Review: Reverting to Type: a Reader’s Story
Reverting to Type: a Reader's Story by Alan Jacobs My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just really like Jacobs,…
September 22, 2014
Review: The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief by George M. Marsden My rating:…
September 22, 2014
A Really Great Post on What Evangelicals Give Up When They Give Up Genesis 1-11
My good friend Brian Collins has written a really great post you have to read at the BJU School of…
September 21, 2014
The Death of the Secular Order
#150184538 / gettyimages.com Christian sociologist Kevin Flatt: The secular order is a way of structuring culture and society based on…
September 19, 2014
The Grand Narrative of Liberalism
Below is a one-paragraph summary of the grand narrative of liberal progressives, written by then-evangelical sociologist Christian Smith (in this book).…
September 18, 2014
Pop Culture Is Not a Culture After All
This is the greatest tragedy of all in the church's careless appropriation of popular culture: that popular culture is not…
September 12, 2014
The Meaning of Italics
All the marks on a printed page—and a lot of the spaces—carry meaning. Even variations in the shape of some of…
September 11, 2014
Chantry vs. Frame
A blog reader sent me this post some months ago, a critique of John Frame by Reformed Baptist pastor Tom Chantry (son…
September 8, 2014
Ellery Lewis Ward
Ellery Lewis Ward was born at 5:37 a.m., September 2. He is 7 lbs. 8.5 oz; 21 inches long. He…
September 2, 2014
Church Music
I sometimes wonder: if "attractional" churches which use a genre of music called "bone-shaking" had their way, would the kind…
August 28, 2014
Tyndale House on Christian Scholarship
Got this from the Tyndale House, an academic ministry you should be aware of. This strikes me as just the…
August 27, 2014
Sneak, Snank, Snuck
I was recently informed by a well-meaning copy editor that my use of snuck was "incorrect" despite "being increasingly common." Sneaked, she…
August 18, 2014
Hilarious Story: The Name of Abraham’s Servant REVEALED!
True story, told with permission: Dr. Dan Olinger was once an editor for Faith for the Family magazine, a publication of Bob Jones…
August 16, 2014
A Backhanded Compliment from Jonathan Haidt
I'm finally nearing the end of a book I've been wanting to read for quite some time, Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous…
August 15, 2014
The Allure of the Iron Cage: Reactions to Steven D. Smith’s The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
I hope to publish the paper I read at the Bible Faculty Summit, but for my blog audience I'll go…
August 14, 2014
The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
Read this this morning: And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech…
August 14, 2014
Is Genesis 1-2 Poetry? A Bloggable Thought from the Bible Faculty Summit
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Bible Faculty Summit (here's their brand new website, made last night real late…
August 8, 2014
Classic Fish
Forget Van Til—the secret of his unreadability is out: he actually wrote in Dutch but used English letters! No wonder…
July 31, 2014
Stand Tall and Strong (and Pseudonymously) for What You Believe
Dropbox is one of my favorite tech tools. I rely on it extremely heavily, and it pretty much never lets me…
July 30, 2014
New Experience with the ESV Reader’s Bible
Neat comments on the ESV Reader's Bible: When I saw that Crossway had published the ESV Reader’s Bible, I must say…
July 28, 2014
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