Commenting on Dan.3 on the famous fiery furnace story, CKB notes about the qualifying words ‘but if not’: If you removed these three words you would have a different story— an adventure yes, but without the heroic element. If you stop at vs. 18, ‘our God will deliver us out of your hands O, King,’ then the three men know everything will be alright. Of course it will be an adventure to go into the furnace, but only like the... Read more
I am pleased to announce that the third volume of the Lightfoot Legacy series, with commentaries on 2 Corinthians and 1 Peter and extra essays by the man himself, which have not been published before, as well as by Barrett and Dunn, is now available at your friendly neighborhood Amazon store. These are the manuscripts I discovered gathering dust in a box in the Cloister library at Durham Cathedral. Hallelujah they now are in print and doing good! BW3 Read more
It is a classic problem for someone who has created a cult following with a series of fantasy novels and then very successful films—- How do you top that? So authors do not try, and some change the subject. J.K. Rowling decided to tell a collateral and related story to the Harry Potter stories, about a man named Newt Scamander, once expelled from Hogwarts but one of Dumbledore’s favorites. Smartly, while the story is still set in a mythological world... Read more
There are of course various first contact sorts of sci fi movies. Think ‘Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind’. This one is however very different. The aliens this time do not know how to speak in human languages, and yet they need something from the human race—- but what? Enter a linguist named Louise, played brilliantly by Amy Adams. No she is not fluent in ‘alienese’, but as a linguist she knows how to look for patterns, repetitions, and knows... Read more
“HOSEA”— HOSEA 1 AND 3 [Preached thirty times from 1/9/44 at Bondgate, Darlington to 11/24/02 at Shiney Row] The story of Hosea is well-known. I almost said too well know. It is so familiar that we fail to ask ourselves whether we should have been likely to act as Hosea did, and to see what the prophet makes of his tale. We take it for granted that because it is in the Bible it must be ordinary, commonplace, tame, whereas... Read more
What is your life for? The only answer is that your life is to be integrated into the meaning of all life, and the meaning of all life is Christ. Behind all your suffering is the agony of the Son of Man. Beyond your sin is sin-bearing love that will not let you go, and every fragmentary good, every virtue we possess, is his alone. It is like the reconciliation of fiction and autobiography. In fiction, the author’s purposes prevail;... Read more
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