Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with AugustineBy Jason ByasseeWm.B. Eerdmans (November 2007)290 p. Praise Seeking Understanding on the surface seems to have great promise: Jason Byassee wants his readers to take up the Scripture–and the Psalms specifically–and read them…
Sorry to disappoint all my ‘friends’ out there. This is not my demise but that of one of the greatest church historians Britain ever produced, a man whose erudite writings opened up the world of the early church for many…
Sorry to disappoint all my ‘friends’ out there. This is not my demise but that of one of the greatest church historians Britain ever produced, a man whose erudite writings opened up the world of the early church for many…
Rarely has one man stood up against so many opponents–or against so great an evil–for so long and with so little encouragement, before finally meeting with such a complete triumph, as William Wilberforce in his long battle against the…
It’s a tad late for this, but the story only broke a few days before Christmas. The London Times ran with the headline, “Wise Men seek a virgin Mother.” Another newspaper ran the headline, “Lizard’s Immaculate Conception.” The story was…
The Trinitarian formulations of the early Church often seem to our postmodern culture as the inevitable brainchild of monastic orders, burlap habits, deserts, and Neoplatonic philosophy. Austere, abstract, and unconnected from everyday life – just like the stereotypical image of…
The Trinitarian formulations of the early Church often seem to our postmodern culture as the inevitable brainchild of monastic orders, burlap habits, deserts, and Neoplatonic philosophy. Austere, abstract, and unconnected from everyday life – just like the stereotypical image of…
William Knibb (1803-1845) is rightly remembered as one of the great heroes of Baptist history for the key role that he played in the emancipation of the slaves in the British Empire in the 1820s and 1830s. In fact, so…
American President Theodore Roosevelt once said that “it is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the…
It should not escape the attention of the Christian disciple that some of the most profound spiritual mysteries are very often closely tied to time and history. Take the incarnation for example. Arguably the most weighty of spiritual realities, and…
