Stephen Nichols

One of the many lessons we’re hoping our kids learn is the standard one on not being selfish.  A hard lesson for them, especially since I am so selfish my…

Here’s one for the historians. “Memory is much more significant than originality.” Samuel Wells, Improvisation:  The Drama of Christian Ethics, 147.

One of the many lessons we’re hoping our kids learn is the standard one on not being selfish.  A hard lesson for them, especially since I am so selfish my…

One quick addition to my summer reading list:  Garth Rosell’s The Surprising Work of God:  Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism.  Ockenga was in the first…

Compliance is good, even if it comes late, which is to say I finally have my summer reading list to add to the mix.  I’m working on a book on…

Thabiti, since you and I aren’t at the General Assembly this week and everyone else is, let’s say we find a B B King concert to go to.  Game?  We…

Yes, Derek got to meet his hero–he has stacks full of blues cds but won’t fess up to them.  Not only did I get to spend time with Derek, meet…

I used to tell people that Sinclair Ferguson could have read the phone book during his lectures and it would have not only been interesting, but profound.  My theory was…

I came across this quote in reading Charles Briggs’s infamous inaugural address, “The Authority of Holy Scripture” (1891), the address that led to his ouster from the PCUSA:  “[The theory…

Rev Boadicea Von Ribbentrop, as one who sees her role as correcting errant brethren, just reminded me that Blondie’s song was actually “Heart of Glass,” a common mistake, she informed…