Linkle, Linkle, Little Star
The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century Some…
The Ant and the River: Horace on Virtue and Natural Law
There’s a game Christian intellectuals sometimes play regarding ancient philosophers. “If he had lived 400 years later,” the question goes, “would Plato (or Aristotle, or Euripides, or Cicero, or Confucius,…
So I finally read Francis Schaeffer…
I don’t keep count of how many times people recommend books to me (I never have the presence of mind to start the count on the first instance, and three…
To Every Link There Is a Time and a Season
Is the contemporary American novel written in vernacular English? A Londoner visits Atlanta (and has several nice things to say about it!) What’s Harold Bloom’s favorite book of the Bible?…
A Theophany and a Revolution: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 7 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 7 August 2011 (8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 and Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b • 1 Kings 19:9-18 and Psalm 85:8-13 • Romans…
On the Link of Something
The closed-mindedness of liberal academia. New York Magazine profiles The King’s College. Saying good-bye to John Stott.
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #52: Theological Dramatics
General Introduction – What’s wrong with the blog? – Our shame in the face of The Pietist Schoolman – The perils of Internet celebrity – Working on our Night Cheese…
Book Review: "Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus"
The outline for Greil Marcus’s approach to analyzing Bob Dylan in his latest book, the aptly titled Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, can be found in two pieces. The first…
The Complicated Fall of Post-Charismatic Evangelicalism: A Review of Quitting Church by Julia Duin
Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and Waht to Do About it by Julia Duin 180 pp. Baker Academic, $12.99 What makes books by journalists so fun is that,…
The Rhetoric of Repentance: A Review of Telling God's Story
Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation by John W. Wright 164 pp. $19.00 IVP Academic I actually became aware of this book while reading Stan Hauerwas’s Working with…
Wisdom is Grace: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 24 July 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 24 July 2011 (th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 29:15-28 and Psalm 105:1-11, 45b or Psalm 128 • 1 Kings 3:5-12 and Psalm 119:129-136 • Romans…
Gnar-link, dude.
Tripp Fuller cites some Barth, this time on purpose! I think he’s turning to our side! Why Bill Cosby is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of storytelling An entirely sensible proposal to…
No Instruction Manual: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 17 July 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 17 July 2011 (Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 28:10-19a and Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 •Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19 or Isaiah 44:6-8 and Psalm…
Everything but the Kitchen Link
The aesthetics of teaching literature at a Christian college How think tanks are making journalism harder than it already is The rise in Spinoza’s stock value Social psychology and why…
Birthrights, Stew, and the Postmodern: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 10 July 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 10 July 2011 (Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 25:19-34 and Psalm 119:105-112 •Isaiah 55:10-13 and Psalm 65:(1-8), 9-13 •Romans 8:1-11 •Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23…