On 25th December – an arbitrary date in the calendar – most Christians celebrate the coming into flesh of the Eternal Word. We remember and rejoice in what has happened, without trying to turn the clock back and attempting to…
When viewing a film, while it is important to pay attention to its narrative, it is also very important not to simply or exclusively concentrate on the narrative. The artistic elements of filmmaking convey aesthetic and worldview choices as much…
Harry Potter is the literary phenomenon for children so far in the twenty first century. On the use of the imagination in literature, C.S. Lewis has commented, “You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish…
“Fairy tales, romance and adventure appeal to us, not just because they are different from our ordinary experience but because they present in easily assimilable form an essential element of that experience, the shrouding mystery of life and the tremulous…
Mark Noll is well-known both within and without evangelicalism as an outstanding scholar, a gracious and thoughtful commentator on religion and America, and one of the most significant public religious intellectuals of the last decade. Indeed, disagreeing with him is…
Toothless Vampires and the Holy Grail It is often suggested that John Milton’s Paradise Lost is a better read than his Paradise Regained. It is easier to describe evil than goodness, easier to record the terrors of Hell than the…
In a recent comment Steve Bush takes issue with the accuracy of some of my review of John Franke’s The Character of Theology, which appears in Reformation21. I take up – I hope in the spirit of generous orthodoxy – his…
“Deciding whether postconservatism is a ‘movement’ or simply a ‘mood’ is rather unimportant for our purposes. What is important – and what is by and large no longer questioned – is that a significant shift is taking place in some…
“Are you going to the dogs this year?” was the question put to me. I suppose my initial reaction was that I should respond in the affirmative. I tend to think that I am making little progress in anything as…
Great Commission Publications continues to expand and improve its materials for use in Sunday School. This fall they unveiled a new format for their children’s Sunday School material-a more closely graded elementary series. That means that instead of grouping grades…
