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Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge.... Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity doctrine: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/137/...

Rosie O'Donnell has begun her new job on ABC's "The View" by claiming that "Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state." She went on to equate 9/11 with the apparently Christian-backed killing of innocent victims in...

Justin Taylor writes: "18. Reject the theories of collectivist sin, guilt, or exoneration when dealing outside of a covenantal context." Whether I agree with this statement depends on what counts as "a covenantal context."

If you want an introduction to John Owen's theology, here is a series of five lectures by Carl Trueman on Owen: John Owen: The Man and His Time by Carl Trueman John Owen and the Practice of Theology by Carl Trueman John Owen on God by Carl Trueman John Owen on Christ by Carl Trueman John Owen on...

Justin -- do you know, I can't recall where I delivered them. But then I'm told my lectures are a bit like the sixties -- if you can remember them, then you weren't really there.

More from Charles Spurgeon on preaching the whole work of Christ: "He did not merely come to save us from the guilt of sin, but he came to save us from the power of sin. He does not merely bring us pardon, but he brings us holiness, and he comes to make us like himself. This, indeed, is the end of...

Writing in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society , Dallas Seminary's Daniel Wallace explains why Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus became such a publishing phenomenon. Why would a book on textual criticism, of all things, sell more than a hundred thousand copies and...

Phil, thanks for raising the question about covenantal contexts and responsibility with regard to race . I think you may have landed here on a genuine disagreement between us. My fear is that in having such an expansive understanding of "covenant" the concept becomes almost meaningless, stretched...

The tiff over Pope Benedict's anti-Islam remarks, and his subsequent quasi-apology, presented an interesting interplay between supposed papal infallibility and political pragmatism. Of course, Benedict was not speaking ex cathedra during his visit to the University of Regensburg, but that...

Another op ed piece in the Wasthington Post today (I'm visiting my mother in D. C. this week) was written by Eugene Robinson . This one was titled "Torture Is Torture." He first gives practical reasons why America should not sanction torture of our enemies. But then he says, "We shouldn't have to...