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The Sound of Silence

Just yesterday someone told me of a sincere and well-meaning Christian family who forbid their children from reading Harry Potter books and who buy them Rob Bell’s Nooma Videos to watch instead. What is particularly galling about that is that…

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Step aside, taxi drivers……

Todd Pruitt has spotted ref21’s favourite cutting-edge pastor setting the world to rights again.  Yes, `the thinking man’s Paul Levy’ has decided that he hates haters — which leaves him with something of an aesthetic/moral paradox, I guess.  Great suit,…

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On Liturgical Gnats and Theological Camels

I probably should begin this post by establishing my “traditional worship” bona fides.   My tastes in worship are decidedly traditional–my wife and I attend a church with a pipe organ where the organ is used . . . every Sunday…

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The Lesson of David Swing

While the internet has rocked with information about a prominent minister who has denied the reality of hell, being more historically minded, I couldn’t help but think about David Swing. Most people don’t know who David Swing was–but in the…

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Inerrancy From the Resurrection

In light of Prof. von Hoffman’s stunning (but all too familiar) revisionist historiography, I thought it might be helpful to highlight an argument for the inerrancy of Scripture that I had not heard until Warfield–who else?–brought it to my attention:…

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Vatican Files N. 1

[Editor’s Note:] This is the first of a seven-part series on Roman Catholicism in the 21st century. A new entry in the series should follow every three weeks]. Setting up a new Pontifical Council is not something that happens often…

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Vatican Files N. 1

[Editor’s Note:] This is the first of a seven-part series on Roman Catholicism in the 21st century. A new entry in the series should follow every three weeks]. Setting up a new Pontifical Council is not something that happens often…

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Isobel Kuhn

My wife likes Isobel Kuhn and so, after 10 years of marriage, I’ve just read ‘By Searching’, the first volume of her autobiography. It tells  the story from her going to college to her leaving for China. I feared it…