Ho hum. Rick’s post indicates that the `quantity versus quality’ distinction between America and Europe is alive and well. Never mind the quality, feel the width. On baseball, the English equivalent would seem to me to be `rounders.’ Same bat,…
As a public announcement to our non-native Ref21 contributors, I point out that the great American Octoberfest begins today: the major league baseball playoffs. There is no more American cultural phenomenon than baseball. And there is no baseball like the…
Great comments on porn, Phil and Carl. My pastoral experience dealing with this issue has taught me that this issue is tied to a broader issue of idolatry that becomes practically an entire worldview of porn. Time after time, men…
A helpful comment from Michael Cassidy, who is one of the leading evangelics in South Africa: “Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that doom them, the economic…
I agree with Phil re. pornography but think the problem must also be seen not simply in terms of the categories of lust and exploitation of women. These are surely only part of the story. The need for constant change and variety…
Last month’s post on Naomi Wolf’s essay “The Porn Myth” provokes many useful lines of practical and theological reflection. Wolf’s basic argument is that, contrary to feminist expectations, easy access to pornography has not been liberating for women, but makes…
Updating TolstoyWages of SpinCarl Trueman Some years ago the BBC produced a new version of Tolstoy’s romantic tragedy, Anna Karenina, with the twist was that this was to be an updated version set in the present day. I guess…
Updating TolstoyWages of SpinCarl Trueman Some years ago the BBC produced a new version of Tolstoy’s romantic tragedy, Anna Karenina, with the twist was that this was to be an updated version set in the present day. I guess…
Like Phil, I got a copy of The Great Exchange, kindly sent to me by Jerry Bridges. I’m very glad to see it, having been told of it by Jerry during a dinner we had during last year’s PCRT conference. …
Despite a previously poor cultural track record which includes such low-points of Western civilisation as Derek Thomas, Swansea, and Shakin’ Stevens (Excuse me, boyo, but his album `Whole Lotta Shakey’ was much underestimated, wasn’t it? — ed.), Wales has upped its game…
