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  • The evangelical left loves to critique complementarianism. And more power to them. Marshal your best exegetical arguments, egalitarians, and put…
    April 6, 2014

  • This is pretty dense, but it's rich. I wish I'd seen it during my dissertation work (with which it is…
    April 4, 2014

  • In the American South, it can still feel natural to have religious discussions with strangers. My last was with a…
    April 3, 2014

  • I just found out that Greenville, SC has banned texting while driving within the city limits. I'm glad. Looks like…
    March 31, 2014

  • My dissertation committee chairman is still skeptical that I ever learned μι any Greek, but I'm pretty sure I did.…
    March 28, 2014

  • This is exactly why I read Ross Douthat. He holds out more hope for the possibilities of pluralism than I…
    March 21, 2014

  • I'm a bit late to this, but I stole a few minutes this week from my non-TV endeavors (that would…
    March 20, 2014

  • Searching for public domain books to read to my small son, I ran across E. Nesbit's Five Children and It. I…
    March 20, 2014

  • In 1809, when he was thirty-seven, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge paused to recall a youthful dream, a plan he…
    March 17, 2014

  • Story 1 Many years ago I remarked to a group of grad school friends, “One of the goals I have…
    March 13, 2014

  • I found this to be a moving story told with insight and written with exceptional skill. It's not an accident…
    March 10, 2014

  • What's proper English: "He is a better frisbee player than me," or "He is a better frisbee player than I"?…
    March 10, 2014

  • Really good stuff from a great Christian writer and wide-ranging reader and thinker, Alan Jacobs (can't help saying it again:…
    March 8, 2014

  • Well-known New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein (with Jodi Kantor) did good homework on this interesting piece about female…
    March 7, 2014

  • Ross Douthat and Rod Dreher represent two similar but different positions in a very important discussion: are American Christians being persecuted?…
    March 6, 2014

  • I personally do not hold to the doctrine of limited atonement as I understand it. I can get there theologically,…
    March 4, 2014

  • Today only, get a Kindle or Kindle Paperwhite (my recommendation, and what I personally use) for $20 off. A few…
    March 4, 2014

  • Insightful words from Philip Roth: The power in any society is with those who get to impose the fantasy. It…
    March 2, 2014

  • Excellent article. Recent abortion cases have uncovered a weakness in the arguments of the Roe court: if the harms of…
    March 2, 2014

  • This is exactly what I said would happen. This is what I said almost a year ago: Republican Christian conservatives,…
    February 28, 2014