Mel Duncan Reviews The Hobbit
A few years ago, on a warm spring afternoon in Jackson, MS, I detected a note of surprise in the man’s voice. He had just finished a PhD on Tolkien and was delighted by the questions of my dear friend…
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When Robbo met Richard
David Robertson has produced a video promoting his tete a tete with Richard Dawkins held recently in the Highlands of Scotland. Dawkins and Robbo two of the great characters of our age meet at Stornoway Airport luggage carousel! It’s at…
12 words, 16 syllables
Though flowing slurs Do sorely try,I’ll not contendBut silent lie.
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Lee ‘Iron Man’ Gatiss has penned a riposte to Ref21’s own poet laureate There once was a Baptist named Walker Who was quite the inordinate talker But his poems are fine Ancient rhyming sublime His attack on poor Levy –…
A Christian Perspective on The Newtown Shooting
This past Friday, a twenty-year-old man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with loaded weapons and brutally murdered twenty-six people. A majority of the victims were kindergarteners. Wickedness to this degree takes one’s breath away. The otherwise peaceful…
A Christian Perspective on The Newtown Shooting
This past Friday, a twenty-year-old man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with loaded weapons and brutally murdered twenty-six people. A majority of the victims were kindergarteners. Wickedness to this degree takes one’s breath away. The otherwise peaceful…
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Yon blackguard Levy sallies forth Regardless of wight’s feeling:Why waxed thee wroth o’er sorry tales,Thou scurvy Pope of Ealing? What need we Del or Phil or Rick,Those trusty blades of yore?From Levy’s quill, one post sufficeTo make a world full…
Stop the Stories
Today I make a plea to all potential Christian book writers and publishers…….. stop putting very annoying ‘real life stories’ at the start of your chapters, as if that really grounds them in reality. You know what I am talking about.…
Share the Gospel — hundreds of thousands wait
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals delivers sound, biblical teaching to hundreds of thousands of people. The very same teaching you enjoy on reformation21.org. As we enter a New Year – with challenges and opportunities to serve our Lord – I…
Fervent prayers
How do you pray? How do you think about praying? How do you set out to pray? Consider these encouragements from Thomas Brooks in his volume, The Privy Key of Heaven (also reprinted recently by Banner as The Secret Key…