No Gag Order
Ron Belgau has a very thoughtful post in response to an article over at the Gospel Coalition which argues for the importance of the ‘gag reflex’ when it comes to debates about sexuality. Belgau’s point is sound: taste is no…
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Serious Questions
As the news breaks that Bradley Manning has decided that he is really a woman, a couple of questions come immediately to my mind. They may appear facetious but they are deadly serious. If I decide I am a woman…
Serious Questions
As the news breaks that Bradley Manning has decided that he is really a woman, a couple of questions come immediately to my mind. They may appear facetious but they are deadly serious. If I decide I am a woman…
Honouring Aberystwyth’s Finest Raconteur
One of the greatest delights I have received in recent years was an invitation to contribute to Geoff Thomas’s Festschrift. Geoff has variously referred to me over the years as ‘a complete idiot,’ ‘that utter disaster’ and ‘a typically…
Honouring Aberystwyth’s Finest Raconteur
One of the greatest delights I have received in recent years was an invitation to contribute to Geoff Thomas’s Festschrift. Geoff has variously referred to me over the years as ‘a complete idiot,’ ‘that utter disaster’ and ‘a typically…
Aimee Byrd: Mistress of Spin
The latest Mortification of Spin is up. It is an interview we did a while back with Aimee Byrd about her new book. One listener recently told us that we are ‘one of the last outposts against the political correctness…
Aimee Byrd: Mistress of Spin
The latest Mortification of Spin is up. It is an interview we did a while back with Aimee Byrd about her new book. One listener recently told us that we are ‘one of the last outposts against the political correctness…
Saved by Grace, Theologian by Default
My first interview with Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt on the Mortification of Spin is now available. This was also my first interview period, so it was kind of like being thrown in the deep end. I like to compare…
On camps and converts
I’m on camp this week, speaking every morning from Daniel, and a couple of seminars on Revelation. It’s slightly different as a camp because all the kids are from one church; St Nicholas’ Sevenoaks. It’s hardly a gathering of the working…
I hope to be proved wrong (really, I do)
The responses to my post on transformation have been fast and on occasion furious. There is not time to deal with each and every one, so I respond in the form of a clarification and then a quasi-challenge. First,…