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Gifts for Grads: Make College Count

Yes, you’re thinking about Valentine’s Day.  But, before you know it, the snow will melt, the temperatures will climb above freezing, spring will be here, and pomp and circumstance will fill the air.  What will you get for grads?  I…

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Justification and the Literary Imagination

The function of the literary imagination is to incarnate meaning in concrete images, characters, events, and settings rather than abstract or propositional arguments.  To use the formula of Dorothy Sayers, the imagination images forth its subject, and in turn it…

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Justification and the Literary Imagination

The function of the literary imagination is to incarnate meaning in concrete images, characters, events, and settings rather than abstract or propositional arguments.  To use the formula of Dorothy Sayers, the imagination images forth its subject, and in turn it…

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What really happened?

Seeing Levy’s expose of Trueman’s alleged greed led me to call my old friend to hear his side of the story.  His claim is that, upon arrival at Paddington, Levy took him not to the greasy spoon breakfast place he…

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Pastoral Search Committees

I have just finished reading Chris Braun’s book, When the Word Leads Your Pastoral Search (Moody). I thoroughly recommend it. Even if you are not involved in a search, or are not being searched, this book defines what ought to…

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Meeting Myself

A few years ago, I taught a course on Jonathan Edwards at London Theological Seminary.  I saw Stephen Nichols on the roster, thinking it was I.  Turns out, it was a student named Stephen Nichols.  Stephen, who grew up in…