Postcards from Palookaville

...because the pun in the title of his new website is about as criminal as the one in the title of this blogpost. Seriously, Dr. Kruger has done some excellent work on the formation of both the canon and early Christian orthodoxy and it is exciting to see that his voice will now be even more...

A friend just brought the following article to my attention. It is worth reading and a reminder that the cultural influence of evangelicals is waning even as the noise within evangelicalism about 'engaging the culture' (whatever the verb and the singular noun may mean -- who knows?) is increasing...

A friend just brought the following article to my attention. It is worth reading and a reminder that the cultural influence of evangelicals is waning even as the noise within evangelicalism about 'engaging the culture' (whatever the verb and the singular noun may mean -- who knows?) is increasing...

For this week's Around and About , I have just two items. The first is an article in this week's Spectator by Hitchens Minor on the strategic problem posed by gay marriage to moral conservatives in the public square. His point is a good one: for all of the hoo-hah about gay marriage, marriage was...

For this week's Around and About , I have just two items. The first is an article in this week's Spectator by Hitchens Minor on the strategic problem posed by gay marriage to moral conservatives in the public square. His point is a good one: for all of the hoo-hah about gay marriage, marriage was...

The announcement of the launch of the Apple iPad3 was greeted with predictable positive promotion in the media and the usual level of hysteria among the shopping public which we have come to expect. When Steve Jobs died last year, it was as if a messiah had left the earth yet, when his c.v. is...

The announcement of the launch of the Apple iPad3 was greeted with predictable positive promotion in the media and the usual level of hysteria among the shopping public which we have come to expect. When Steve Jobs died last year, it was as if a messiah had left the earth yet, when his c.v. is...

I gave a lecture yesterday on the life and theology of B B Warfield, focusing on his engagement with German liberalism as expressed in a number of his book reviews. His book reviews are, I suspect, the most neglected part of his published works but actually contain some of his most astute...

I gave a lecture yesterday on the life and theology of B B Warfield, focusing on his engagement with German liberalism as expressed in a number of his book reviews. His book reviews are, I suspect, the most neglected part of his published works but actually contain some of his most astute...

A year or so back I was berated by one of the hotter sort of web-Protestants for failing to mention in a Ref21 article that sinful apostasy is the only significant reason why anyone would leave evangelicalism for Roman Catholicism. Those satisfied that such an approach is adequate will presumably...