When Gilbert Meilaender writes a book, I press “pre-order” at Amazon. Not because I agree with everything he writes, but because he, as an astute theologian and ethicist, is consistently insightful about the nature of what he calls “the perennial…
In a world saturated with psychological approaches to problems, women are often encouraged toward a distorted view of themselves and their struggles. The self-help aisle of the local bookstore is an aisle filled with man-centered approaches to a myriad of…
David Shiflett is the author of Exodus: Why Americans are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity. Shiflett draws on the work of Dean Kelley and others who have documented the sharp decline in membership of America’s mainline Protestant churches. His…
Linguist and biblical scholar James Barr died on Saturday at the age of 82. Barr was the author of a famous volume on The Semantics of Biblical Language Obituaries: Times of London Vanderbilt University (HT: Denny Burk)
The fall issue of Southern Seminary’s magazine opens with a manifesto from Al Mohler on “The State of Preaching Today.” In his indictment of contemporary trends, Mohler mentions five critical areas of concern: 1. A loss of confidence in the power…
Reading through some other people’s lists has reminded me of a few books I should have included. Under the category of the books that were the most influential, both the Prayer of Jabez and Left Behind both deserve serious consideration. …
The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online is now available for use in a Public Beta phase. After thousands of hours of use, loads of email feedback from our initial Closed Beta team, and a great deal of internal QA testing, we are…
Tell us, Lig — enquiring minds want to know: who does your quote about the Word of God come from? I’ll guess Charles Spurgeon, but not with a lot of confidence.
Special thanks to Rick Phillips for calling me middle-aged. In my view, middle age begins at 50, a milestone I feel confident Rick will reach before me. Typically I only comment on my age when my birthday falls on a Sunday, which…
I recently asked some friends to give me their thoughts on the top ten books that should have been most influential in the past 50 years and that were the most influential in the past 50 years. (A number of…
