Postcards from Palookaville

Practical Ethics , a webpage based at the University of Oxford, has an interesting post on research that suggests a society's crime rate will be higher where there is widespread rejection of the notion of hell. Statistics are statistics, of course, and so the findings will no doubt be contested;...

Listening to my lectures on Medieval Church on iTunes, Justin Taylor heard me make this statement which is now, ten years on, somewhat amusing: "I'm recommending GR Evans on Bernard of C based on her reputation, even though I haven't read it yet. I'm playing the percentage game, as it were." It...

Listening to my lectures on Medieval Church on iTunes, Justin Taylor heard me make this statement which is now, ten years on, somewhat amusing: "I'm recommending GR Evans on Bernard of C based on her reputation, even though I haven't read it yet. I'm playing the percentage game, as it were." It...

A friend brought my attention to the following trailer and promotional website this morning. It is hard to imagine how a film of Augustine's life could fail to be interesting. And with Franco Nero in the cast, we can assume it will be excellent. We can only hope that he plays his character as a...

A friend brought my attention to the following trailer and promotional website this morning. It is hard to imagine how a film of Augustine's life could fail to be interesting. And with Franco Nero in the cast, we can assume it will be excellent. We can only hope that he plays his character as a...

For this week's Back to Basics, I have returned to a hardy perennial of Christian literature. The recent comments by J.I. Packer that John Bunyan had come to join John Owen and Richard Baxter in first equal position in his list of Puritans sent me back to Pilgrim's Progress once more. It is some...

For this week's Back to Basics, I have returned to a hardy perennial of Christian literature. The recent comments by J.I. Packer that John Bunyan had come to join John Owen and Richard Baxter in first equal position in his list of Puritans sent me back to Pilgrim's Progress once more. It is some...

The Atlantic has an interesting article by a member of the Religious Right on the problems with the Religious Right. Well worth a read, whatever your personal convictions might be.

The Atlantic has an interesting article by a member of the Religious Right on the problems with the Religious Right. Well worth a read, whatever your personal convictions might be.

There are a few items of interest in the news today. First, Westminster Bookstore is offering the Dispatches from the Front DVDs at a discount price. This series is quite superb and would make excellent additions to a church library and would serve well for Sunday School or mid-week meetings. They...