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?…

The closed-mindedness of liberal academia. New York Magazine profiles The King’s College. Saying good-bye to John Stott.

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…

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…

General Introduction – The perils of Vacation Bible School – Introducing our guest – Listener feedback – Grubbsy’s new job The Topic at Hand – Indiana Jones, of course –…

What does the devil look like? A message to parents: lighten up, enjoy life, and fire up that in-car DVD player! (link posted and labeled by Gilmour) On the bad…

He must have regretted it for the rest of his life, but J.D. Salinger perfectly encapsulated the deep affection a reader develops for an author. “What really knocks me out,”…

General Introduction – In which we put Season 4 to bed – David speaks in faith – Listener feedback – Looking for our most-distant listener – We apologize for last…

General Introduction – Cold opening and warning – What’s on the blog? – (The book review is coming tomorrow) – Thanks to Cap’n Thin! – More on the in-car DVD…

A review of Harold Bloom’s 847th book. James K.A. Smith talks about the new evangelical universalism. Stanley Fish on the moral absurdity of formal disputes The eighties, once again, burst…

As an uninformed but opinionated teenager working my way through both youth group and Honors World History, I grew obsessed with the Fall of the Roman Empire. I must confess…

General Introduction – The end of an era – What we want on our statues – What’s on the blog? – Freshman comp clichés – More on DVD players in…

General Introduction – The Dennis Miller ratio – What’s on the blog? And where’s that McLaren review? – On the rhetoric trilogy – A string of feel-good clichés Beginning with…

BLOOPBLEEPBLURGH General Introduction – What’s on the blog? – The feud continues – Polymathery Cybernetics as Governance – Not a portmanteau! – Getting organized as a spiritual gift – Rudder-steerer…