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I noticed that over on his blog Sean Lucas refers to fulfilling his lifelong dream of seeing the Boss in concert. The week before Springsteen made his way through St. Louis' arches, he was in Hershey, PA, a mere hour's drive away and yet I missed it. Alas I, unlike my buddy Sean, have unfulfilled...

When we pin all of our hope as well as our despair on the presidency of the United States, we've not only committed idolatry, we're also guilty of sloth, and we also (sometimes) sound mean. I'm not suggesting that we not be engaged, that we not ferret out where candidates stand on issues that...

Couldn't resist posting this light hearted cameo of things to come when the Olympics comes to East London in 2012, the home of ping-pong. Here . Carl, wipe that tear from eye!

Today I'm back to work with a full two days of faculty workshop, followed by classes starting next week. Summer's over, in other words. It's a good time to reflect on what got done, what got left undone, and what got done that wasn't expected. Into this latter category, I would have to say what...

I just saw on the internet that Shawn Johnson, the American female gymnist, finally won her gold medal, on the balance beam. For me, the highlight of the Olympics was not Michael Phelps, great as that was. I thought the highlight was the beautiful graciousness of Shawn Johnson in her second place...

I've just been reading Collin Hansen's Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists . It's a fascinating exploration of the growing influence of names with which we are familiar: John Piper, Mark Dever, Al Mohler. I don't get Christianity Today , but I gather that this...

I have been involved in a friendly, and hopefully fruitful, discussion over at Green Baggins regarding Bible interpretation. I have been encouraged to post here some of my comments there . Because I am excerpting from a conversation, I will have to do so in the form of questions and answers. The...

Amidst all the hoo-hah out there about whether my pal Trueman is really a chinless theology-lite liberal, why anyone would want to study Lederhosen, whether Schleiermacher would really have spoken cockney dialect with a German accent, and other matters of equally pressing importance to the kingdom...

I've been reading the late Robert Webber's last book, Who Gets To Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (IVP, 2008), and came across these lines: "When we argue [in an evidentialist] way, we overlook the inner authority of the Scripture and seek to support it...

From my pastor's letter this week: One of the most important things we will do at Second Presbyterian Church is disciple our children to a living, personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We live in a society that assumes that when children grow up they will jettison the family's beliefs and values...