The Nameless One
Over the last few months, I have been asked in numerous contexts what I think about the young, restless and reformed (YRR) movement(s) described in Collin Hansen’s book of the same name. I did do a quasi -review of this…
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Packing Unforgiveness
I’ve been thinking recently about something television star Kelsey Grammer said. It’s not because I saw a rerun of Cheers. Unfortunately, the context is tragic. Grammer has me thinking about well intentioned people who end up “packing unforgiveness.” Where deep…
Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible
Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the Bible is a subject of neglect in mainstream Shakespeare scholarship. This is surprising, inasmuch as the relevant data has been compiled by a coterie of Shakespeare scholars, most notably Naseeb Shaheen in his book Biblical References…
Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible
Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the Bible is a subject of neglect in mainstream Shakespeare scholarship. This is surprising, inasmuch as the relevant data has been compiled by a coterie of Shakespeare scholars, most notably Naseeb Shaheen in his book Biblical References…
Marxing your card, Lig!
Is Trueman a Marxist? Well, as that nice, loyal Mr Lieberman might say, `That’s a good question!’ And, as it now appears that it is not seeing class struggle but rather belief in graduated income tax that defines a Marxist,…
Marxing your card, Lig!
Is Trueman a Marxist? Well, as that nice, loyal Mr Lieberman might say, `That’s a good question!’ And, as it now appears that it is not seeing class struggle but rather belief in graduated income tax that defines a Marxist,…
Rallying the Really Human Things
A friend of mine, some five years ago now, introduced me to Vigen Guroian when he suggested I read Inheriting Paradise (Eerdmans, 1999), a short but immensely satisfying meditation on the relationship of theology to gardening. Earlier this year, I…
Ferret Breeding on Watership Down
Teaching history is probably one of the more depressing activities in which one can engage in the current climate. At an academic level, the discipline has been in self-destruct mode for some time, losing itself in a morass of hyperspecialised…
Flip-Flops in the House of God
In an article in the Chicago Tribune this week, Jodi Cohen and Maegan Carberry discussed the case of Kate Darmody, a winning member of the National Championship Women’s Lacrosse team from Northwestern University. She, along with her fellow players had…
Grace Psalm
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.…