A poignant scene unfolds in Whit Stillman’s remarkable debut film Metropolitan about a group of young people in New York City living on the cusp of a new social age. The scene presents the main characters playing a game called…
Legalism is a tricky topic. There isn’t a Christian alive on earth who doesn’t struggle with legalistic tendencies. To diagnose this problem, we need to look at the various types of legalisms that we encounter in the church and in…
This is the second article in the series. One can find the first article here ~ the Editor I thought it might help the reader to know that God has been pulling me into places of racial interaction ever since I…
John Coffey, Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $34.99 On Saturday March 10, 2015, President Barack Obama spoke on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Selma…
John Coffey, Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $34.99 On Saturday March 10, 2015, President Barack Obama spoke on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Selma…
Like many of you I find myself wondering from time-to-time why it is that Joel Osteen is able to attract such massive crowds to his church and stadium events. And those books! How is it that there are more than…
Scripture’s account of Terah and Abraham’s departure from Ur of the Chaldeans for Canaan (via Haran) presents Calvin with a difficulty. In Genesis 11.31 it appears that Terah takes the initiative in quitting Chaldea for the greener pastures of some…
I’ve been wondering just what we’re supposed to do with Bryan Chapell’s “The State of the PCA” essay in byFaith (available here), beyond praying over the sad state of affairs it describes. Chapell adapted this essay from a private letter…
By now you have no doubt heard the troubling news concerning Josh Duggar of the immensely successful television program 19 Kids and Counting. Many others have weighed in already. It is an important story not least of all because it…
The following are some books that I have read in the past few months. Each one is well worth reading. The Happy Christian by David Murray Those looking for simplistic sentimentalism should look elsewhere. But for those who would like…
