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An Answer to One of My Top Two Critics
I just wrote a 2,200-word response to a fairly brief Amazon review. I’m either OCD or just O. But it…
April 4, 2018
Alan Jacobs on How to Think
Jacobs' new book, How to Think, is great. This is great: I’d bet a large pile of cash money that thousands…
April 3, 2018
John Calvin and Lamin Sanneh on Giving the Bible to the People
My book, Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible, amounts to an argument for vernacular Bible translation—applied…
April 2, 2018
Review of NKJV Unapologetic Study Bible
The NKJV Unapologetic Study Bible (subtitle: Confidence for Such a Time as This) is a fruit of the ministry of…
April 1, 2018
In Which I Beat Critics to the Punch, a Punch I Deserve
My new book Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible has inside it what I now take…
March 26, 2018
Three SCOTUS Quotes Christians Need to Keep Handy
In the Obergefell v. Hodges decision of 2015, Justice Anthony Kennedy, arguing for the majority, promised that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines,…
March 21, 2018
Wow. Just Wow.
Wow—from an evangelical literary review that looks promising: I’m wondering if perhaps “fundies” have advantage in our emerging justice culture…
March 13, 2018
Sharper Iron Interview about Authorized
I did a video interview recently with someone who really, really understands my new book, Authorized: my friend Tyler Robbins…
March 8, 2018
Is a “Purity Culture” Necessarily Bad?
I haven’t read the book this CT article summarizes, a book about dating on Christian college campuses, so I am…
March 6, 2018
Marijuana Talk in Surrey
The kind folks up at Back to the Bible Canada, and particularly Isaac Dagneau of the indoubt podcast (a ministry…
March 3, 2018
A Quick Thought about KJV-Onlyism
A quick thought: my friends who are very concerned to have one standard English Bible often warn of the terrible…
March 1, 2018
A Must-Read Must-Read
I'm really liking Jonathan Leeman. He humbly lets his gifts be sublimated to those of Mark Dever when the two…
February 17, 2018
One of The Most Profound Things Any Reader Has Said to Me After Reading My Book
A reader of Authorized wrote me: I have found it interesting on the topic of italicized words in the KJV…
February 16, 2018
Halt! A Defense of My Central Example
A Facebook commenter with a PhD in English challenged my interpretation of halt at KJVQuiz.com. It was perhaps an incautious challenge…
February 16, 2018
The Preserved Word of God for English-Speaking Peoples
“Preserved” is the key word in KJV-Onlyism these days. Just about every KJV-Only doctrinal statement I see uses that word…
February 10, 2018
A Few Lessons I Learned about Learning
I recently had occasion to reflect on what I concluded about teaching from my own years sitting under it. As…
February 3, 2018
KJVParallelBible.org Launches!
I’ve been so busy with the launch of Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible, I failed…
January 28, 2018
Endorsements for Authorized
I’ve been trying to pick a moment when my new book was “born”… Was it when my favorite seminary professor…
January 24, 2018
Wise Words from Lesslie Newbigin on Pluralism and Secularism
I'm listening to Lesslie Newbigin's Foolishness to the Greeks (Eerdmans, 1988). My local library had it among their digital audio…
January 17, 2018
Some Thoughts on Some Thoughts on the Future of Christian Higher Ed
Alan Jacobs and Carl Trueman are probably right to fear that the sexual revolution will "annihilate" a number of Christian…
January 16, 2018