While I was at home with my parents last week, my niece (not the Welsh-speaking turncoat) stopped over for Saturday night. While she loves me as (she says) `my uncle from a Roald Dahl book, who’s never grown up and…
Rev. Dr. Herman Ridderbos, the influential NT scholar and biblical theologian, recently died. Details about both his life and his death have been difficult to locate, but here’s the basic information about the work and influence of this faithful servant…
The reputation that the Korean church has for Christian hospitality is well deserved. From the moment that I arrived in Seoul, I was generously cared for in every way: warm greetings, respectful bows, spacious accommodations, delicious food, engaging conversation, and —…
I see the new film `300′ is stirring up controversy as an `anti-Iranian piece of propaganda.’
Had a terrible weekend. I was at home with mum and dad when my Welsh speaking niece arrived wearing, of all things, a Cymru rugby shirt. Virtual blasphemy in my father’s house. Still, after the Italian triumph on Saturday, I…
I have only recently returned from a week-long trip to Chongshin Seminary in South Korea. Incidentally, I regret my sudden and unannounced disappearance from the blog — it is almost as hard to get away as it is to return. …
The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has chided his conservative Anglican bishops in Africa and elsewhere for openly criticizing the U. S. Episcopal Church’s acceptance of openly gay clergy and same-sex unions. He says, “There is one…
Rodders, Del Boy sent me an SMS from the local barber’s shop. He’s been reading that monthly journal for men called Men’s Health (December 2006)— never seen it myself, you understand. Anyway, he was reading this article on some dude…
Gilbert Meilaender, who holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, scorches N. T. Wright in the current issue of First Things (Februray 2007). For once, it’s not his assertions on Paul and the New Perspective that…
Goodness me! Steve Nichols has produced yet another book on the Reformation: The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World (Crossway). Come on people, get with the program — the kids of today don’t want to hear…
