I don’t know if the discipline of apologetics is overrated or not, but one aspect of apologetics seems to be underappreciated. While apologetics may be useful in the exercise of evangelism (helping give people reasons to believe, which of course…
Readers who lament the undeserved popularity of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion will be heartened by the sharp criticism the book receives in the January 11 issue of The New York Review of Books. While generally unsympathetic to biblical…
Previous posts have mourned the passing of Al Groves, who taught Old Testament at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. I was blessed by a letter Al wrote to his friends, to be shared at the time of his funeral. The letter…
Crossway has just published a new book, edited by Rick Phillips: Only One Way?: Reaffirming the Exclusive Truth Claims of Christianity. Contributors are Richard D. Phillips, David F. Wells, Peter R. Jones, Philip Graham Ryken, J. Ligon Duncan, and D.…
Lisa (full disclosure: a woman to whom I have been married for 19 years) received the following email this week from a distant friend: “Tell your husband that he is on my iPOD between the Doobie Brothers and Duran Duran…
In personal response to Derek’s question: by celebrating their wives with tangible expressions of matrimonial affection. But I hope it’s not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising from a healthy Calvinist doctrine of total depravity: “Many a…
From Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essay on a New York exhibit of letters from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here Fujimura is reflecting on the declaration of Jesus that wars will happen: “In Jesus’ realism of ‘these things must happen,’ he…
It is good to see John Tweeddale introducing the work of Richard Muller — a world-class scholar who has done much to rehabilitate a healthy understanding of Reformed theology after Calvin. I read Muller’s works on post-Reformation Reformed dogmatics early…
Bruce Metzger, George L. Collord Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on Tuesday.
John Tweeddale, a PhD student at Edinburgh working on John Owen’s commentary on Hebrews, is doing the church a great service in helping us to understand Richard Muller’s magisterial work, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. (Tweeddale blogs at The Conventicle blog (dedicated…
