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A friend sent my request for help to a friend, and the lost egalitarian/complementarian illustration has been found! (Thank you!)…
January 22, 2010
Carl Trueman States the Fundamentalist Position
Carl Trueman is having a friendly but serious and important debate with Paul Helm. Both are conservative evangelical men, but…
January 22, 2010
Incidentally…
While I was doing some research for a high school Bible lesson on gender roles, I ran across this article…
January 21, 2010
Please Help!
Several years ago, in something like 2005 (?), I read an article (?) by an evangelical theologian (?) who had…
January 21, 2010
Humpty Dumpty on Ἀγάπη
Humpty Dumpty took the book and looked at it carefully. “That seems to be done right—” he began. “You're holding…
January 21, 2010
The New York Times Censors Me for the Second Time [CORRECTION APPENDED!]
I love reading Stanley Fish's long blog posts on the New York Times web site. A recent post of his…
January 19, 2010
You’re 1,300 in a Billion
A clever line delivered by Bill Gates to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, pointing out that the Chinese have…
January 16, 2010
The Courage to Be Catholic
At the behest of a flashing sign on Wade Hampton, I’ve been listening to EWTN (Eternal World Television Network) radio.…
January 15, 2010
The Love Chapter
You could be the world’s foremost orator, but if you aren’t motivated by love, you’re like a car alarm going…
January 13, 2010
Frame on Helm on Providence
John Frame in a review of Paul Helm’s The Providence of God (Leicester, U. K.: Inter-Varsity Press, 1993. 241pp.) Doesn't…
January 12, 2010
The Greatest Preacher of the Century
I was editing a lesson for the 12th grade Bible textbook put out by BJU Press, and I formulated a…
January 8, 2010
Pray for the Unborn
I don’t find myself incredibly attentive to politics, but I do care about the unborn. I have one. Pray that…
January 7, 2010
God’s Will
Kevin DeYoung argues in the best-titled book of 2009 that God has a sovereign will and a moral will, but…
January 6, 2010
Towel-reading
A true story from the teacher’s edition for a BJU Press Bible Truths textbook, which I’m now halfway through editing:…
January 5, 2010
Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision without Cabbage-Reading
By [Jonathan] Edwards' time witchcraft and the preternatural had almost disappeared from clerical attention. In 1690 Cotton Mather could preach…
January 5, 2010
Probably Not Funny
What if the Scientologists took over the Wilds? What would the new Ken Collier’s favorite saying be? Just two choices…
January 4, 2010
The Most Influential Conservative Christian Thinker in America
Robert P. George was recently christened by the New York Times as “this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker”—and Richard…
January 4, 2010
Carson on the Parables
Pregnant wives sometimes simply cannot make it to church, so the last time we missed a Sunday sermon we listened…
January 2, 2010
Righteousness and True Healthiness
James Barr in the iconoclastic The Semantics of Biblical Language: A regular church-goer is likely sooner or later to hear…
December 31, 2009
Web MD
The David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Recording Trust has got a new look since the last time I surfed over there. Check…
December 30, 2009