For the past decade or so, I have had the privilege of playing a minor role in the defense of the Protestant doctrine of justification. Running in the circles of the anti-New Perspective resistance, I have known the passions of…
I’ve revisited the Dark Ages: the time before the internet! All promises for my trip to Belfast that I’d be able to access this site (or my email) proved futile. The reasons are too complicated to explain, but the result was a…
In Britain, the History A-level (for non-UK people, that’s the specialised exam in history which you can opt to take at age 18) is to be scrapped. The subject is, apparently, too difficult and too irrelevant. A shame — history…
My friend Sean Lucas has written two terrific blog entries (here and here) in response to the conversation Carl and I have been having over fundamentalism and antithesis over here at Ref21 (See my original piece, Carl’s cheesy reply, and my…
Like most Americans, I’ve been trying not to think about Barry Bonds and his impending achievement of breaking Hank Aaron’s home run record. But the story is just too compelling. Bonds is a truly Shakespearean figure – of the tragic sort,…
I remember that in a post below, Carl said that his children attend public school. I was wondering if he might have some insights by comparing the public school system in the UK vs. that in the US. (And, yes,…
Readers of the ref21 blog will know that I am not a good blogger. In fact, I am undoubtedly the worst blogger on this site. I could give any number of decent excuses, but I think one of the reasons is…
I know from the deluge of emails I received in the spring how much our Welsh readers appreciate my immediate response to England-Wales rugby fixtures. What can I say, boys? Normal service has been resumed.
I do apologise for the insensitive way in which I brought to the attention of European readers the existence of aerosol cheese. While America has provided many great cultural benefits to the world (The Rockford Files, Walker, Texas Ranger), I…
Wow, my post on Bob Jones and fundamentalism has provoked a large reponse from readers — almost all of it helpful and constructive. Carl has also offered some insightful comments immediately below. I would respond to Carl by saying that…
