Postcards from Palookaville

....check out the account of Jade Goody's funeral here . What is going on with this hypersentimental Diana-esque idolatry of mediocrity? Isn't North Korea a little more important as a news item?? And why am I sounding more reactionary than the Daily Mail these days???

Logos Bible Software has made the 14 volumes of the Torrance-Bromiley edition of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics available in digitised form. You can find it via their website here . Anyone who wants to understand the pathway of theology from Scheleiermacher to the present has to come to grips with...

Logos Bible Software has made the 14 volumes of the Torrance-Bromiley edition of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics available in digitised form. You can find it via their website here . Anyone who wants to understand the pathway of theology from Scheleiermacher to the present has to come to grips with...

Former WTS Academic Affairs Avenger, Emma Peel, sent me this link on Friday, with the comment that it was `beyond parody.' Other than the fact that there is a link to Chuck Norris (and no link to Chuck can be all bad, can it??? I mean, he sparred with Bruce Lee, didn't he? And then he was Walker,...

Former WTS Academic Affairs Avenger, Emma Peel, sent me this link on Friday, with the comment that it was `beyond parody.' Other than the fact that there is a link to Chuck Norris (and no link to Chuck can be all bad, can it??? I mean, he sparred with Bruce Lee, didn't he? And then he was Walker,...

I had the great pleasure today of being present at the presentation of a Festschrift to my good friend and esteemed colleague, Manny Ortiz, a delight only matched by having lunch with him and his family, The book, Globalization and Its Effects on Urban Ministry is edited by his long-term colleague...

I had the great pleasure today of being present at the presentation of a Festschrift to my good friend and esteemed colleague, Manny Ortiz, a delight only matched by having lunch with him and his family, The book, Globalization and Its Effects on Urban Ministry is edited by his long-term colleague...

Well, Saturday saw some sanity return to the ranks of international rugby. The Calcutta Cup returns to its rightful owners; and the Irish slay the Red Dragon at the Millennium stadium. The theodicy question relative to the most glorious of sports seems somewhat less pressing today than it might...

Well, Saturday saw some sanity return to the ranks of international rugby. The Calcutta Cup returns to its rightful owners; and the Irish slay the Red Dragon at the Millennium stadium. The theodicy question relative to the most glorious of sports seems somewhat less pressing today than it might...

A few thoughts: On Rick's ramblings on rugby: this is clearly a point where Proverbs 26:4 applies. So I waive my right to a surrejoinder. On Mr Dever, I hope Mark is purging his library of all the abominable theology produced by these people who practice what he can't abide. Should leave him with...