Top Story of the Year
The Aquila Report, source of all world knowledge for confessional Presbyterians, has published its list of the top fifty stories which it ran this year. At the head of the list is an entry from Anthony Bradley. It is nearly…
Month December 2011
Top Story of the Year
The Aquila Report, source of all world knowledge for confessional Presbyterians, has published its list of the top fifty stories which it ran this year. At the head of the list is an entry from Anthony Bradley. It is nearly…
Seeing, they do not see…
In a recent Hardball, Chris Matthews and his panel demonstrate a stunning lack of moral seriousness in a conversation about abortion. Of course, avoiding moral seriousness is necessary if one is to hold a “pro-choice” point of view. The entire…
Book Recommendation
The Book of Mary, Edited by Anthony Zurlo (CruciformPress, 2011) Okay. So, CruciformPress just did something pretty radical. They have an eBook that you can download from their website for just 99 cents through January 3rd. First book I ever…
Completely and Unreservedly
It was forty years ago today (December 28, 1971) that I became a Christian. My conversion was Saul-like: sudden, unexpected, and decisive. I was eighteen, a freshman at university studying physics and math at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. …
What Goes Into the Beer?
Dorothy Sayers’ essay, Why Work?, is still churning in my mind. I’ve really been thinking about integrity in our labor. As I alluded in my last Reading Reflection, it is particularly bothersome in the so-called Christian industry. When is it…
New Vatican File
The newest installment of the Vatican Files is an excellent piece on Paul’s theology and Roman Catholicism. Click here to read!
The Vatican Files no. 7
The Roman Catholic Church is masterful at celebrating special years: the year of Jubilee, the Holy year, the Marian year, the Year for priests, etc. In a sense, every year is a “special” occasion for something. So it was with…
The Vatican Files no. 7
The Roman Catholic Church is masterful at celebrating special years: the year of Jubilee, the Holy year, the Marian year, the Year for priests, etc. In a sense, every year is a “special” occasion for something. So it was with…
Reading Reflection:
Letters to a Diminished Church, Dorothy Sayers (Thomas Nelson,2004) What a great book. The subtitle, Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Dogma, would not be very popular for today’s Christian culture; but I would love to see this book…