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I finally got around to reading President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech, and I commend it to you. David Brooks made the interesting point that Obama, though certainly a political liberal, did not speak like a secularist. He talks freely of higher-order purposes. He...

Jennifer Senior writes in a New York Magazine article about how pro-choice our nation isn’t, The pro-choice movement has always had the harder job. The choice argument is an analytical one, grounded in theories of privacy and the rights of the mother; the pro-life...

At Rubén Gómez’s request, here are the answers to all the questions in my BibleWorks Pop Quiz. I included the commands I used. If I’ve overlooked a better command or made some error, I’m happy to hear about it in the comments. 1. Find all ESV occurrences in Paul of...

I just finished Kevin DeYoung’s Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will (sub-subtitle: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc.), and I came...

A little piece of wisdom I ran across some time ago: If you ask questions but you reject answers, you’re not actually asking anything. You’re just festooning tired, old propositions with trendier punctuation. [From Disingenuous Doubt: It’s inauthentic to ask questions...

A little tip for word study in the Bible: Don't think that you have exhausted the topic of "love" when you have looked up and studied every passage in which "love" appears—or even every passage in which forms of ἀγαπάω or φιλέω appear. No one word, Greek or English,...

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Anglicanism is at times beautiful and rich, wicked and nonsensical, funny and sad: Some years ago, in conversation with a prominent Anglican bishop in Britain, I asked how he would define the mission of the Church of England. After a pause for thought, he said, “I...

Stanley Fish is always provocative and thoughtful in his New York Times blog. I presume his books bear the same qualities, though I've only ever picked up his most famous. Gilbert Meilaender recently reviewed in First Things a new Fish book addressed to college...

I really enjoyed this essay on that poor, abused English word "literally." If you'll read it carefully you'll get a very helpful point for Bible interpretation as well as parlor talk. Note, too, that "wrongainey," one of the four known thoughtful commenters on the...

For the last year my wife and I have been in the young couples Sunday School class at Mount Calvary Baptist Church. The first six months focused on the marriage relationship; for the last six we've been learning from experienced parents about how to raise godly...