Step aside, all you who have personal websites which have sidebar columns with titles like `What Great Things Famous People Are Saying About Me!’. Christian Smith, Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame, is starting a new trend in self-promotion: reviewing…
A couple of days ago, I began a series of reflections on lessons that I have been learning as I’ve worked on the history of First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi, which will celebrate its 175th anniversary next year. Here are…
From D.A. Carson: In a fair bit of Western evangelicalism, there is a worrying tendency to focus on the periphery. [My] colleague . . . Dr. Paul Hiebert . . . . springs from Mennonite stock and analyzes his heritage…
Feminine Threads, Diana Lynn Severance (Christian Focus, 2011) There are so many awesome women shared in this book (along with some characters). I wanted to pass on a bit of wisdom from America’s first English poet, Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). Anne…
“The deceptively simple task of disciple-making is made demanding, frustrating and difficult in our world, not because it is so hard to grasp but because it is so hard to persevere in. “This is why we are such suckers for…
…for providing a fitting reply to Frank Schaeffer’s despicable post concerning the tragic violence in Norway.Read it HERE.
If a man doesn’t hesitate to use his parents’ sex lives to get a cheap laugh and sell a few books, one should not be surprised if he sees yesterday’s events in Norway as a great opportunity for puffing his…
If a man doesn’t hesitate to use his parents’ sex lives to get a cheap laugh and sell a few books, one should not be surprised if he sees yesterday’s events in Norway as a great opportunity for puffing his…
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m working on the history of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi. It has been a rich honor to do this work, to tell the story of one of the leading churches of southern Presbyterianism. As…
The other day, I drove past a horrible church sign. In big, black letters it read: BE AN ORGAN DONOR, GIVE JESUS YOUR HEART. It made me sad. First of all, organ donors have something good to give to someone…
