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Trouble and rest

I have a deep appreciation for the earliest Princeton men. Archibald Alexander, for example, mixes deep scriptural insight and wisdom, developed by assiduous study, with a rich and experimental piety, a happy blend too rare today. I have also been…

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The Seven Deadly Sins in a Digital Age: 1. Lust

When the subject of “Lust in a digital age” comes up, our minds are likely to jump immediately to the suffocating epidemic of internet pornography that is sweeping our country–indeed, the world. Although it is still rarely openly discussed, most…

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The Bible Tells Me So

Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So …: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It. New York: Harper Collins, 2014. $17.99 This is not an easy book to review because a review calling into question the accuracy of…

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Jenkins on the Canon of the East

In our circles, historian Philip Jenkins appears to be best known for his work on global Christianity, beginning with Next Christendom (Oxford, 2002; 3d edition, 2011–now part of his Future of Christianity trilogy). Just before that, however, he released Hidden Gospels:…

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Dare to be a Noah: Calvin on Gen. 6.5-22

“In a few words, but with great sublimity, Moses here commends the faith of Noah.” Thus comments Calvin on Scripture’s record that “Noah… did all that God commanded him” (Gen. 6.22). The terseness with which Scripture registers Noah’s obedience is…