Philip Ryken

From Charles Spurgeon, “The First Cry from the Cross”: “These places of worship are not built that you may sit here comfortably, and hear something that shall make you pass…

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…

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…

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…

You can’t choose your family . . . or can you? Last week ABC News reported that 40-year old Jenna MacFarlane has adopted new parents.  Feeling estranged from her own…

From Dave Shiflett, Exodus: Why Americans are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity (New York: Sentinel, 2005). Shiflett wonders what accounts for the diverging growth rates of liberal (on the…

I see that Rick Phillips has already written a full-length response to Susan Wise Bauer’s Books & Culture review of Finally Feminist, a new book by John Stackhouse.  I have not…

Taking some exception to my recent theological slur on his beloved sport of cricket, an English friend has written to correct my athletics and my theology: “I feel moved to…

From Dave Shiflett, Exodus: Why Americans are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity (New York: Sentinel, 2005): “As the mainline has moved closer to flatlining, churches that have maintained allegiance…