I see from the endorsements on Michael Haykin’s new book on Christian lovers that a whole bunch of hardline macho fundamentalists have suddenly put down their .45s and machetes and got in touch with their feminine sides at last. What…
“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life;who proceedeth from the Father and the Son;who with the Father and the Son togetheris worshipped and glorified;who spake by the prophets.” In Scripture it is made clear that…
I’ve just been reading Frank Schaeffer’s memoir, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as one of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back (Carrol and Graf, 2007). …
If my first question about God is “What is he?” then I am already mistaken. The really important question is “Who is he?” “What is God like?” The biblical answer is that he is the fountain of all good and…
Through the generosity of a friend I am a subcriber to World Magazine. If you do not subscribe I highly recommend that you do.In the latest issue includes an important article on the history of abortion by Marvin Olasky.Professor Olasky…
“When we pray we make our request known to God by the help of the Holy Spirit; in the name, authority, and mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ; with faith, fervency, and submission to the will of God; and with…
Calvin’s Institutes opens with a strikingly important sentence–crafted first by a young man in his mid-twenties and only fine tuned between its first appearance in 1536 and its final expression a few years before his death. Wisdom–the knowledge coupled with…
Greg Gilbert over at IV Marks offers three very helpful reviews of Rob Bell’s popular video series Nooma.
The Calvin blog resumes on Monday with Sinclair Ferguson’s comments on the opening five chapters of Book I.
Anne Hendershott at the Wall Street Journal has written a fascinating article on the Kennedy family’s transformation from pro-life to pro-abortion. She reports on a meeting at the Kennedy compound in 1964 where several Roman Catholic theologians and leaders provided…
