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Tony, thanks for yours. That there “Trueman” bloke has lost his marbles. After all, Lewis is English, right? Well, I know he was born in Belfast and that means he’s got Irish in him somewhere, but he’s English through and…

If intention is the key to Pullman’s error, then I guess we should also discourage Christians from reading Milton’s polemically anti-Trinitarian, anti-orthodox Paradise Lost. And Pascal’s anti-Protestant Pensees.   And Gibbon’s anti-Christian Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  And…

I have to weigh in on Phil’s side regarding Narnia.  It certainly is true that C.S. Lewis had some doctrinal problems (I find this is a fairly common thing when a very accomplished person comes to faith later in life). …

While I believe Carl Trueman is right to caution against an overreaction to Philip Pullman, I still believe that his books, particularly, must be distinguished from Harry Potter, the Arabian Nights, and most other secular literature for children.  Here is…

In criticizing The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I fear that Carl Trueman may be committing a category mistake.  It is true, of course, and widely known, that C. S. Lewis did not have a fully Reformed theology of…

Justin T just brought this book to my attention.  Haven’t read it but may be of interest: Personally, I think I may well boycott the movie after all: apparently it’s set in Oxford University which is a simply frightful…

When I was a child, I read and read the Arabian Nights, and loved the stories about Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Al-Ahdin, the Djinn in the bottle and others equally fantastic more than anything else which I read; yet, strange to…

Banner of Truth has republished a nice little book of selections from Samuel Rutherford’s marvelous pastoral letters.  The book is called The Loveliness of Christ, and it looks to be ideal for devotional use.  Here is one of Rutherford’s gems:…

Check this out: After 500 years, the strategy remains the same: boycott a cultural product to make it the most popular thing since sliced bread.  And now we have another example: with the release of Pullman’s Golden Compass, the…

A disagreement has broken out on whether or not Tom Schreiner is correct when he suggests (in his forthcoming book, New Testament Theology) that the most basic theme of the New Testament is, “God magnifying himself through Jesus Christ by means…