This morning at the Pastors’ Conference prior to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] (the annual cooperative gathering of the largest Protestant family of churches in the English-speaking world) in Greensboro, North Carolina, Alliance Council member Al…
Xavier Pickett is blogging on a recent Washington Post study on black men. He’s asking some significant questions about the role of the church in the area of the formation of Christian manhood that are applicable to all of us,…
posted by Derek Thomas Harvard University has announced it will begin cloning human embryos.The scientists say that they plan to harvest stem cells in the hope that they might be able to fight blood diseases like leukaemia and diabetes. In this Huxlian scenario,…
Well, we’ve arrived at the date. Wonder what they were thinking in Europe on June 6, 1006? Whatever the answer, Kim Riddlebarger’s new book The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth about the AntiChrist (Baker) should be a rewarding read.
Another subtitle should be added to this book, thus reading: Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Feminist Perspective. The seven women writers–Jewish, Christian and Muslim seek to focus on Hagar, Sarah, Ishmael and Isaac. In the preface, the editors make it…
The theology of Richard Baxter has an intriguing complexity to it. Baxter has been described by his opponents as a Calvinist, an Amyraldian, an Arminian, a Roman Catholic and even as a Socinian. As a result many have simply resorted…
Posted by Derek Thomas I spent the last day in Grand Rapids, at Joel Beeke’s seminary–The Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary–buried in their fascinating puritan library. It is one of the finest in the country, I should imagine. What with Calvin…
Recently, I had occasion to fly to Korea via San Francisco. Flying across the US on a clear day is one of those rare pleasures which really allows you to get the geographical measure of the place: how flat much…
The Braves are playing poorly. Not that I’d notice too much. You see, it’s my wife’s love–baseball that is, not mine. And she has lost something of her joie de vivre. I try to console, but when those guys swing…
Nearly a decade ago now, Lisa and I went to visit an art exhibit at a private gallery on Manhattan. I had recently become acquainted with the Japanese-American artist Makoto Fujimura, and I wanted to see his work for myself.…
