Checking in
What have I been up to the last four weeks (as if anyone is interested)? Have I (a) been preaching in London, where my microphone was controlled by The Who’s sound manager of 25 years; (b) completed my first marathon, and…
Category Postcards from Palookaville
Checking in
What have I been up to the last four weeks (as if anyone is interested)? Have I (a) been preaching in London, where my microphone was controlled by The Who’s sound manager of 25 years; (b) completed my first marathon, and…
Naustalgia
As a historian who is paid to look at the past, I find myself frequently indulging in rants about how we live in an anti-historical age, where history is not taken seriously. Typically, of course, I am referring to those…
Death, the Final Boundary
It is arguable that the last hundred years have witnessed an interesting reversal in Western society, where the great taboo of the Victorian era and the great obsession of the same period have dramatically switched places. The great taboo for…
When Is a Confession not a Confession?
I will delay answering the above question until the end of the article. Instead, I want to start by noting that Father Richard John Neuhaus has some good fun at Protestantism’s expense in the latest First Things. In the priceless…
I guess I’m losing it
Justin — do you know, I can’t recall where I delivered them. But then I’m told my lectures are a bit like the sixties — if you can remember them, then you weren’t really there.
I guess I’m losing it
Justin — do you know, I can’t recall where I delivered them. But then I’m told my lectures are a bit like the sixties — if you can remember them, then you weren’t really there.
Prosperity Doctrine
Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge…. Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity…
Prosperity Doctrine
Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge…. Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity…
Ancient and (Post)Modern
I was struck by this description of social and intellectual attitudes in the ancient world in Ivor Davidson’s Birth of the Church (Baker):