This weekend we kickoff the 2018 Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, meeting April 13-15 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our theme this year is The Spirit of the Age: The Age of the Spirit. I am excited to welcome Conrad Mbewe…
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” – Bertrand Russell I’ve noted, with some degree of envy, the lists of pastors and others who speak of…
Most Christians inwardly, if not outwardly, groan when they arrive at a genealogy in their Bible reading. This is a shame. The genealogies are wonderful and I love studying (not just reading) and preaching them. They are compressed histories of…
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…
