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Johnny Cash Gets Pardoned–Again

Two weekends back I was in Starkville, Mississippi, attending the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin’ Festival.  Now that needs some explaining. Johnny Cash was arrested in 1965, May 11 to be exact, for picking’ flowers from the home of the Copelands…

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Ancient Word, Changing Worlds

I have had the privilege to read the manuscript for Stephen Nichols’s forthcoming book, Ancient Word, Changing Worlds: The Doctrine of Scripture in a Modern Age.  Here is the endorsement I wrote for Crossway Books: “Ancient Word, Changing Worlds is…

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The Resistance

I had to smile when I saw the title of C.J. Mahaney’s latest book: Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World.  Some of us have teased our friend C.J. for writing a book on humility.  Apparently this time he…

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Actually, There Probably Is

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has announced plans to run a month-long series of ads on 30 London buses.  The ads read: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Word for word, the ad may contain…

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Monty Python and Predictive Prophecy

I remember Monty Python’s Meaning of Life for several reasons.  I got in to see it under age (which always made the move somehow more enjoyable, however poor the quality — my equivalent of Augustine’s stealing the pears, I guess). …

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New titles from Scottish academics

I wanted to draw attention to two recent publications from Scottish academics: I. Howard Marshall’s A Concise New Testament Theology (IVP) is an abridgement of his recent New Testament Theology, and is a very accessible survey of the issues and…

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Recovering the Reformed Confession

R. Scott Clark has a new book out, published by P&R: Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice. Here’s the heart of it: “It is the argument of this book that the Reformed confession is the only reasonable…