A Personal God and a Good World: The Coherence of the Christian Moral Vision by Ronnie P. Campell Jr. and David Baggett B&H Academic, 2024 256 pages, paper, $34.99 I recently discovered a linguistic quirk of the Spanish language…
Whatever we may think about an idol, foolish as it may be, we must not be in doubt about the infatuation that these chunks of metal and blocks of wood inspire in their worshipers. idols are precious to idolaters. What…
6 years ago this week, John Piper posted, “We Know They are Killing Children–All of Us Know.” 6 years later, New York has passed and celebrated a bill that would allow a mother to abort her baby up until the…
As I write, the United Kingdom is still reeling from the latest terrorist atrocity to be unleashed in one of our major cities. It was particularly horrific in that it was deliberately targeted at children and teenagers attending a pop…
Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky By Jessica Hooten Wilson Cascade Books, 2017 156 pages, paper, $21.00 It is a sad and tragic irony that many private Christian schools do…
One of my favorite aspects of teaching “Intro to Philosophy” is the chance to expose students to a sampling of, as Matthew Arnold once put it, “the best which has been thought and said.” This takes planning, of course —…
A few years ago, Harvard scholar and author, James Wood, wrote a review of Bart Ehrman’s, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer, entitled “Holiday in Hellmouth.” Wood is an eloquent, penetrating, and…
A few years ago, Harvard scholar and author, James Wood, wrote a review of Bart Ehrman’s, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer, entitled “Holiday in Hellmouth.” Wood is an eloquent, penetrating, and…
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
