This question is more difficult than you’d think. One of the first things you discover is that commentaries are often answering questions no one is asking. A fringe benefit of commentaries is they help you clarify what you don’t think.…
The pressing matter coming out of this year’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) was the Personal Resolution on Civil Rights Remembrance. The assembly decided to postpone this resolution to the coming year in order to allow reflection…
Parts one, two, and three of this series can be found here, here and here ~ Mark McDowell, the Editor I Even the best of us find it hard to think clearly about peace, because so much of our life is absorbed by conflict – conflict…
Parts one, two, and three of this series can be found here, here and here ~ Mark McDowell, the Editor I Even the best of us find it hard to think clearly about peace, because so much of our life is absorbed by conflict – conflict…
Rick Phillips has stirred me from my slumber! I would want to argue the exact opposite, that far too many expository commentaries are being published. I don’t know if I am alone in thinking this, but, if you buy three…
A number of good new books have landed on my desk over the last few weeks. John Macleod, Scottish Theology in relation to Church History. These are lectures given at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1939. They have been available…
I married fresh out of college. I was a mere 21 years old. My husband and I found a church, and I was eager to be the perfect Christian wife. So I began reading books from trusted authorities in the…
A recent baptismal service in our church made a profound impression on our four year old daughter Kaitrin. Much to our joy, she began asking questions about baptism on the way home from morning worship, and has brought the subject…
Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung. Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. 157 pp. $9.99 In her wonderful new book Vainglory: the Forgotten Vice, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, builds on the important work that she began…
Perhaps six days is a little short for an accidental feminist retrospective, but, given the feedback Aimee and I have received for our two posts on John Piper, the time seems ripe for such. Some cheered us for speaking out…
