Not your mother’s apple pie
While browsing a bookshop in Geneva recently, I came across a book with a fascinating title by a man call Klaas Hendrikse, Believing in a God who does not exist: the manifesto of an atheist pastor. It does not appear…
Category Postcards from Palookaville
Forgotten Collateral Damage
There is a very helpful and moving article in Christianity Today on the impact on children of a parental pornography habit. You can find it here.
Forgotten Collateral Damage
There is a very helpful and moving article in Christianity Today on the impact on children of a parental pornography habit. You can find it here.
Ho Hum
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…
Ho Hum
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…
Judges: Surprisingly Encouraging
It was a relief to finish working through Judges last week. Preaching to a congregation which needs encouragement, I could think of more obvious books to choose than this one, especially when one considers the last four chapters. There one…
Judges: Surprisingly Encouraging
It was a relief to finish working through Judges last week. Preaching to a congregation which needs encouragement, I could think of more obvious books to choose than this one, especially when one considers the last four chapters. There one…
You can take the boy out of fundamentalism….
…. but you can’t take the fundamentalism out of the boy. That was the point I made about Frank Schaeffer in his latest book. Apparently incapable of understanding with any degree of sympathy those who do not see the world…
You can take the boy out of fundamentalism….
…. but you can’t take the fundamentalism out of the boy. That was the point I made about Frank Schaeffer in his latest book. Apparently incapable of understanding with any degree of sympathy those who do not see the world…
Preaching and Self-Reference
One question that has arrived in the Inbox as a result of yesterday’s post on the difference between public figures and celebrities has interesting implications for preaching. The question is about the legitimacy of self-reference in sermons. The questioner gives…