C.S. Lewis on the Myth of Scientism 24 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am

Those who accept theology are not necessarily being guided by taste rather than reason. The picture so often painted of Christians huddling together on an ever narrower strip of beach while the incomi...

KJVOism and Circular Reasoning in a Small Circle 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

This thought occurred to me the other day: the KJV-Only use of Psalm 12:6–7 is circular reasoning. Some people will hear that as the ultimate put-down. If someone can successfully prove that another ...

A Vision of the Good 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

One of the reasons Harvard prof Michael Sandel’s book Justice was the most memorable book I read last year—and the biggest reason I highly recommend it—is that it makes one excessively important point...

I Don’t Think Our Language Is, Like, Going Down the Tubes Any Time, Like, Soon 20 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm

Most of the time you say something, you want to be understood. So you use the linguistic and other signs—words, gestures, facial expressions—that you know by long experience to be shared by others in ...

Christian Convert to Islam from Greenville, SC 16 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm

Every once in a while an Internet rabbit trail leads to something exceptionally interesting. Yesterday I stumbled across the video above. I began to watch as Josh (now “Yusha”) Evans related his testi...

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I like Spotify. I can listen to just about any music I want, explore new music from my favorite artists (I found a new one today from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir that was just exquisite!),...

Ross Douthat of the New York Times Agrees with Me on Reza Aslan 5 Aug 2013 | 06:22 am

Reza Aslan’s Zealot 31 Jul 2013 | 10:56 pm

I heard Reza Aslan in an interview on NPR a few weeks ago describing to a fawning* interviewer his book Zealot, a brand new book which purports to describe “The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.” I...

The Ten Tenets of a Covenantal Apologetic 24 Jul 2013 | 07:37 pm

I’m reading through Scott Oliphint’s new Covenantal Apologetics. He’s one of the few people with the stature to propose that the name “presuppositionalism” be dropped—and he may very well be successfu...

Review: Canon Revisited: Establishing The Origins And Authority Of The New Testament Books 24 Jul 2013 | 06:36 pm

Canon Revisited: Establishing The Origins And Authority Of The New Testament Books by Michael J. Kruger My rating: 5 of 5 stars For many years I have felt that canon was my Achilles’ Heel as a Prote...