So I get this e-mail from a friend: X in Xmas represents Christ. The “-mas” part is from the Latin-derived…

Some months ago Dane Ortlund posted an excellent meditation on 1 Tim 6:4, …an unhealthy craving for controversy and for…

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and…

The Puritans weren't really all that bad—now even Harvard Divinity School professors in the New York Times (all right, on…

I have looked fruitlessly for this quotation a number of times, and I finally just stumbled across it: It is…

The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness,…

Love is the third most looked-up word on Merriam-Webster.com. The editors note wisely, “We're guessing that many people arrive at…

If you have not yet seen the following videos (I put the better one first), then forget for once all…

The danger of constant connection is a becoming a relentless theme among people whose highest goals are merely laying up…

I've read a good number of pages on the nature of the human will recently, and little has been as…

David Instone-Brewer at Tyndale House, an evangelical study center at Cambridge, just released an excellent set of tips on word-processing.…

I just wrote a little section in my dissertation on the fear of the Lord. Proverbs 1:7 reads, “The fear…

Praise the Lord: chapter 3 of the dissertation sailed through smoothly. Please pray that chapter 4 would do the same.…

I’ve always heard that the Jewish people of Jesus’ day expected their Messiah to be a political savior and not…

“The truth or superiority of neither Catholicism or Protestantism is to be determined by the parlous levels of ignorance, historical,…

Stanley Fish is at it again, and so am I. He wrote this, and I wrote this: I love to…

Michael Hanel gave us an evening, and we get the SBL GNT for BibleWorks. Thanks, Michael! We needed a free,…

A new church web site idea: don't let anyone in but members, and greet every visitor with a big "DONATE…

A new edition of the GNT for the digital age. Unicode, no DRM. And, at last, a printed GNT with…

Christians have memes. At least American evangelical and fundamentalist Christians do, and I imagine we’re not alone. A meme is…