Historians now generally regard the 1900’s as “the American Century.” What do you suppose they will call the twenty-first century? Possibly “the Biotech Century,” as new scientific discoveries enable the radical re-engineering of the human body [see Jeremy Rifkin, The…
Christians often strike me as the most Freudian of people. Say what you like, I have a sneaking suspicion that Freud, rather than Augustine, Luther, or Calvin, probably offers the best insights into the way that Christians really think and…
In an earlier post to this blog, I stated that whatever problem we are facing from evangelical feminism, we have at least as big a problem with Christian masculinity. Also, I stated that the best remedy for feminism is a…
I see that Phil and I are on the same scent and barking up the same tree (since we’re talking about guys, we might as well start with the dog metaphors right away!). Like Phil, I am actually a bit…
C.S. Lewis once wrote that “it is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” This quote from Lewis is no off-handed ditty that…
It might sound strange to suggest that we need a dictionary devoted to the theological interpretation of the Bible, but Kevin J. Vanhoozer wagers that we do with the publication of Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (DTIB). A…
I cannot begin to express how many sympathetic back pats, mildly shaken heads and ever so slightly rolled eyes I have gotten at the news that I was reviewing a book on the apologetics of Francis Schaeffer. I must say…
The book review section of Reformed Man Today lists the following three must reads for all cutting-edge confessional types out there:
I am grateful for Rick Phillips’s latest post on feminism. There are errors on both sides of a biblical view of godly male leadership in the home and in the church. Authoritarian, domineering men who stifle the gifts of women…
Many thanks to Rick Phillips for his helpful comments on slavery, servitude, and manstealing. The topic seems especially appropriate in 2007, which is the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. In support of what Rick has already…
