Postcards from Palookaville

Postcards from Palookaville

Anyone interested in John Henry Newman should check out the following link to a BBC Radio 3 program on his life and influence (though you'll need to be quick -- it's being pulled off the web in 4 days). You'll find it here . It's well worth a listen. Newman should be of interest to thoughtful...
In my last post, I tried to summarise what we might call `the Shirer thesis' which posits tight connection between Luther and the Holocaust. In this post, i want to start to offer an avenue of critique. The first thing any historian needs to do when looking at a text is ask: `Is this text typical...
In my last post, I tried to summarise what we might call `the Shirer thesis' which posits tight connection between Luther and the Holocaust. In this post, i want to start to offer an avenue of critique. The first thing any historian needs to do when looking at a text is ask: `Is this text typical...
Lest my recent comments on mere Christianity be seen as the sad ramblings of a lone nutter, it's worth checking out the thoughts on much the same thing by Francis Beckwith here .
Lest my recent comments on mere Christianity be seen as the sad ramblings of a lone nutter, it's worth checking out the thoughts on much the same thing by Francis Beckwith here .
Regarding my recent comments about events at The King's College in New York, there seems to be some confusion about what I was actually trying to say. The confusion is at least strongly implied in the Christianity Today web report, and has also been suggested in private -- and, I should stress,...
Regarding my recent comments about events at The King's College in New York, there seems to be some confusion about what I was actually trying to say. The confusion is at least strongly implied in the Christianity Today web report, and has also been suggested in private -- and, I should stress,...
Most preachers and teachers have what one student of mine calls `the candy cane class' -- that sermon or lecture which is in the back pocket, so to speak, committed to memory and there to be pulled out at a moment's notice if, on a Sunday morning, somebody requests that you preach or teach at the...
Most preachers and teachers have what one student of mine calls `the candy cane class' -- that sermon or lecture which is in the back pocket, so to speak, committed to memory and there to be pulled out at a moment's notice if, on a Sunday morning, somebody requests that you preach or teach at the...
In 1998, whilst on faculty at the University of Nottingham, UK, I was invited by my late and much missed mentor, Bob Horn, to become the editor of Themelios , the UCCF/IFES theological journal. It was a key moment for me, the point at which I decided that, in addition to my more academic work, I...