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Cheapening the Western Musical Tradition: Some Thoughts Inspired by Theodore Gioia and Andy Crouch
Theodore Gioia in the L.A. Review of Books: In the mass-media era, the general public primarily experiences classical music through…
February 27, 2019
Wisdom from Peter Williams on Textual Criticism
Peter Williams is a treasure. These lectures contain some absolute gold, and they give me that lovely feeling of being…
February 13, 2019
The Authorized Documentary
The Authorized documentary ships today. It’s the culmination of a lot of work, and I pray that its message will…
January 24, 2019
Is the KJV the Most Concordant English Bible Translation?
A friend and reader who has good training in linguistics wrote to ask me to evaluate a claim she found…
January 11, 2019
Review: Ember Rising
Ember Rising by S.D. Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved it. So did the kids. (And the illustrations,…
December 26, 2018
Find the False Friends!
I'm editing some Puritan prayers for a new Lexham Press project, and I'm really enjoying the edification provided by these…
December 15, 2018
Review: Educated, by Tara Westover
My heart goes out to Tara Westover. I rooted for her and felt defensive for her during 100% of the…
December 14, 2018
An Authorized Milestone
I've just achieved a milestone with Amazon reviews of Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible. I now…
December 13, 2018
Prescriptivist Descriptivism
This is exactly where I'm at: Either you smugly preen about the mistakes you find abhorrent – this makes you…
December 11, 2018
Interview Questions for Iain Provan of Regent College
In your book, The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture, you pointed out that the early church father Irenaeus…
December 6, 2018
Where Should I Train for Ministry?
I just posted the following in a Facebook group composed largely by pastors who graduated from KJV-Only institutions. One asked…
November 21, 2018
Review: It’s Dangerous to Believe, by Mary Eberstadt
It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies by Mary Eberstadt My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book…
November 16, 2018
Arguing Textual Criticism on Facebook. What Have I Become?
I won’t argue textual criticism with those who insist on the exclusive use of the King James Version. But that…
November 14, 2018
How Do We Treat Machines?
When Alexa is talking to me, I feel no compunction interrupting and basically telling her to shut up. Me: Alexa,…
November 12, 2018
Can People Learn to Read the English of the KJV?
One Sunday a few years ago I asked the teens I was teaching in Sunday School to read some verses…
November 10, 2018
Three Critiques of Authorized that Bear Weight with Me
It’s been really, really hard to get responsible, unsympathetic people to offer critiques of Authorized: The Use and Misuse of…
November 9, 2018
Why Does the World Need the Church?
When popular Harvard political theorist Michael Sandel was a graduate student at Oxford in the 1970s, men and women were…
November 8, 2018
Why do I have to learn this stuff?!
I recently preached a message at the opening for a Christian school in my town, one several church members have…
September 25, 2018
Cheap Sex: A Review
Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy by Mark Regnerus My rating: 5 of 5 stars A quick…
September 17, 2018
C.S. Lewis on the Pleasure of Pleasing People without Being a People Pleaser
A few years ago I had one of those little formative experiences. I was leaving a long-term evangelistic ministry to…
September 5, 2018