Postcards from Palookaville

Just received these helpful additions to my earlier post on Barth from an interested reader: Here are some things that would make my reasons-for-Barth list: • Barth is more than a sparring partner, he seemed to be deeplydevoted to the church of Christ and its survival in the midst ofintellectual...

Mulling over Del's sharp question about what can be learned from Barth, beyond the abandonment of inerrancy, I'd like to suggest the following: 1. Barth was a great mind. Reading the works of a great mind is never a waste of time, even (perhaps especially) at those points where one disagrees. 2...

Mulling over Del's sharp question about what can be learned from Barth, beyond the abandonment of inerrancy, I'd like to suggest the following: 1. Barth was a great mind. Reading the works of a great mind is never a waste of time, even (perhaps especially) at those points where one disagrees. 2...

Here's an interesting piece sent to me by friend of Ref21, Fred Zaspel: Warfield on Separation: Observing the stir ofdivision caused by the entrance of unbelief in African Anglicanism, Warfieldwrites: It maysound well to bewail the reproduction in the foreign field of the "unhappydivisions" by...

Here's an interesting piece sent to me by friend of Ref21, Fred Zaspel: Warfield on Separation: Observing the stir ofdivision caused by the entrance of unbelief in African Anglicanism, Warfieldwrites: It maysound well to bewail the reproduction in the foreign field of the "unhappydivisions" by...

It's great to see that my old Australian mucker from Aberdeen days, Brian Rosner (now at Moore), has a new book out. B and I shared many a happy moment in our cramped attic offices, directly over the mosque at Aberdeen University, in the late 90s, in the howling dark of a winter's midday. B has...

It's great to see that my old Australian mucker from Aberdeen days, Brian Rosner (now at Moore), has a new book out. B and I shared many a happy moment in our cramped attic offices, directly over the mosque at Aberdeen University, in the late 90s, in the howling dark of a winter's midday. B has...

At home in the UK this weekend (a good weekend -- seeing the mighty Gloucester finish top of leage for the third time in six years, at least in the regular season), I picked up a copy of Andrew Marr's excellent book, A History of Modern Britain , and sat outside a cafe in the small town where I...

At home in the UK this weekend (a good weekend -- seeing the mighty Gloucester finish top of leage for the third time in six years, at least in the regular season), I picked up a copy of Andrew Marr's excellent book, A History of Modern Britain , and sat outside a cafe in the small town where I...

Justin T just sent me this. Hentoff is a hero -- left libertarian, jazz afficionado, writer of liner notes for the great Robert Zimmerman, and only pro-lifer on the staff at The Village Voice . http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/EDITORIAL07/122506990/1013/EDITORIAL