Religion at 35,000 Feet
There is something aleatoric about the content of these columns. Frankly, it depends on what has been buzzing around my head in the last seven days. And what is it this week? Well, a conversation with a Jewish lady who…
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Top 50 Books for the Past 50 Years
In their 50th anniversary edition Christianity Today published their take on the top 50 books in evangelicalism’s last 50 years–those “landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live.” Anyone planning to add their #1 book…
For Justin’s Christmas List
Justin Taylor commented a while back that evangelicalism is no longer capable of parody, it has become so much a caricature of itself. In the spirit of that comment, I give you “Your Best Life Now–the Game,” inspired by Joel Osteen’s…
Believers
Recently I have been reading Jeffery Sheler’s Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America. Sheler is Contributing Editor for Religion with U.S. News and World Report. While he would not identify himself as an evangelical, Sheler grew up in an evangelical…
A Hateful Calvinism
Having been nurtured in the warmth of the doctrines of grace for my entire Christian life, I am often dismayed at charges that are leveled against Calvinism, especially those that would depict the Reformed faith as legalistic and harsh. Unfortunately,…
Peggy Noonan Amazes Me
Boy she’s good. Here’s her take on Bob Woodward’s State of Denial.
Augustine’s Commentary on Galatians
Oxford University Press have just released the paperback edition of Augustine’s Commentary on Galatians in a fresh translation and lengthy (very lengthy!) introduction by University of Scranton professor, Eric Plumer (hardback edition appeared in 2003). What caught my eye (amidst…
Delusions of Deity
The June 2006 issue of ByFaith (the official magazine of the PCA) features a helpful article by Stephen McGarvey on “Technology and the Church.” McGarvey writes: “The head of consumer electronics giant Philips once told the magazine The Economist that…
Desiring God Conference
Those interested in the audio lectures for the Desiring God National Conference (“Above All Earthly Pow’rs,” featuring David Wells, John Piper, Don Carson, Voddie Baucham, Mark Driscoll, and Tim Keller), can find the audio files collected here. BTW, here was…
Are We Ready for Battle?
Philip Johnston in yesterday’s edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper.gave a chilling account of what the latest European Union legal rulings will mean for Britain. He took as his cue an adverisement in a local newspaper, which read: “Retired couple…