Month March 2007

Had a terrible weekend.  I was at home with mum and dad when my Welsh speaking niece arrived wearing, of all things, a Cymru rugby shirt.   Virtual blasphemy in my father’s house.   Still, after the Italian triumph on Saturday, I…

I have only recently returned from a week-long trip to Chongshin Seminary in South Korea.  Incidentally, I regret my sudden and unannounced disappearance from the blog — it is almost as hard to get away as it is to return. …

The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has chided his conservative Anglican bishops in Africa and elsewhere for openly criticizing the U. S. Episcopal Church’s acceptance of openly gay clergy and same-sex unions.  He says, “There is one…

Rodders, Del Boy sent me an SMS from the local barber’s shop. He’s been reading that monthly journal for men called Men’s Health (December 2006)— never seen it myself, you understand. Anyway, he was reading this article on some dude…

Gilbert Meilaender, who holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, scorches N. T. Wright in the current issue of First Things (Februray 2007). For once, it’s not his assertions on Paul and the New Perspective that…

Goodness me!  Steve Nichols has produced yet another book on the Reformation: The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World (Crossway).  Come on people, get with the program — the kids of today don’t want to hear…