Is it possible for men to hug other men, or young boys without the suspicion of being gay? It is a serious, if offensive question, raised by the “pansexualist” agenda foisted upon the culture by Hollywood. We are reaching a…
This review originally appeared in the January 2005 9Marks newsletter. We are grateful for their permission to republish it hereI) Introduction Books on living the Christian life are a dime a dozen. The shelves of Christian bookstores bow under the…
Carrying biblical overtones and set in the rural Iowa town of Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s second novel is the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction–and with good reason. In a spare prose that rings with psychological realism and moral…
The Emergent (or Emerging) Church is hardly a dozen years old and already it is has reached a level of considerable importance. Indeed, it is argued that the term is out of date; it has already emerged! Its hydra-like nature…
One of the binding chapters of the Directory for Worship for my denomination instructs the minister presiding at the Lord’s Table to “invite all those who profess the true religion, and are communicants in good standing in any evangelical church.”…
The most fascinating thing about this book is that it is deadly boring. It took me two months to read its 197 pages, mainly because I kept putting it aside since, for sheer excitement, it couldn’t compete with Bavinck’s Prolegomena…
The last few weeks of international news have carried multiple reports of the rioting that has broken out across great swathes of the world as a response to the publication of apparently offensive cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. I say…
Rarely, rarely comest thou,Spirit of Delight!Wherefore hast thou left me nowMany a day and night?Many a weary night and day‘Tis since thou art fled away.–P.B. Shelley So wrote the poet, Shelley, suggesting that life had darker moments more than brighter…
Judas Iscariot was the last of the original twelve disciples of Jesus of Nazareth, also called the Christ (Matt. 10:1-4). He accompanied Jesus throughout most of his earthly ministry. He was there, presumably, when Jesus walked on water, fed the…
The theologian is often caught between a rock and a hard place, between the truth he holds dear and the society he loves and longs to see transformed by the gospel. This tension, though never easy, is right and good.…
