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Two Interesting Articles From Arabs on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Two interesting articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict: Abdulateef Al-Mulhim, a retired commodore of the Royal Saudi Navy, argues that Arabs…
November 12, 2012
A Pillar Text and a Slick Website for King James Onlyism
Many websites on the Internet feature garish graphic design: a profusion of fonts and colors, ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, corny animated…
November 9, 2012
Irregardless
November 8, 2012
One More KJV Verse You Didn’t Realize You Didn’t Understand
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness,…
November 7, 2012
The Artistic Theologian
Check Out The Artistic Theologian, a new journal put together in part by my friend Scott Aniol and, in its…
November 1, 2012
A Breathtaking, Truth-Suppressing, Tu Quoque Argument Tops the NY Times Most-Emailed List
The most e-mailed article at nytimes.com right now is opinion writer Thomas L. Friedman's "Why I Am Pro Life." Friedman,…
October 30, 2012
Why Study Greek at All?
Dr. Rod Decker knows Greek. Very well. And he's thought carefully about how and why to learn it, how and…
October 27, 2012
The Secularist’s Religion
Unbelief is not described in Scripture as absence of belief, but as mis-directed belief. Religion ... is man’s ineradicable situation.…
October 24, 2012
Review: Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission
Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission by Tim Chester My rating: 4 of 5 stars The times they are a…
October 23, 2012
Kuyper on Overlapping Magisteria
[All knowledge] proceeds out of faith. All science presupposes that we ourselves believe; presupposes a belief that the laws of…
October 19, 2012
Frame on Churches in Politics
[One] danger [for politically active churches], of course, is that churches will get so caught up in political activism that…
October 15, 2012
Instagram vs. Kodak
I’m not a business guy. I’m a blogger. A purveyor of amateur opinions. But now that I’ve worked in a…
October 12, 2012
Review: Charles Hodge: New Sideold School Presbyterian
Charles Hodge: New Sideold School Presbyterian by Andrew W. Hoffecker My rating: 4 of 5 stars Author Andrew Hoffecker said…
October 12, 2012
Surprised by the Bible
My students are ... disproportionately unchurched (and unsynagogued and unmosqued). An astonishing number of them—15 out of 38 in the…
October 9, 2012
The Flip Side of Atheism
This thought has really stuck with me since I read it some weeks ago: It's belief [and not unbelief] that…
October 9, 2012
Fish Is Brain Food
Stanley Fish is a legal scholar, and as best I can tell, he got into that line of work because…
October 9, 2012
Announcing Bible Truths B: The Story of the Old Testament
A Christ-Centered Bible Bryan Chapell helped revolutionize my thinking about the Old Testament when I read his Christ-Centered Preaching for a…
October 2, 2012
New International Reader’s Version and Evangelism
I run a weekly outreach ministry mainly attended by lower-income adults with low educational and reading levels. The KJVs they…
October 1, 2012
How to Write Multiple-Choice Questions
Not the most exciting post for my readership, perhaps, but you two could improve any teaching you do if you…
September 25, 2012
Thomas Nagel
Even those who cannot accept the theist alternative should admit that Plantinga’s criticisms of naturalism are directed at the deepest…
September 19, 2012