The pressure of society upon us is not, for the most part, violent. But there is again and again a pressure of public opinion which forces us away from the authority of God’s Word under which the Church must live if it is to be the Church. The Church, people say, must recognize that times have changed, and we cannot extend the old standards of belief and morality to be maintained even by ourselves, certainly not by society at large.... Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ5YiOWde8w Without question one of the great voices of the whole rock n’ roll era is the voice of Gino Vanelli, and it was a treat to get to see him one more time, with full horns and keyboards and killer bass and drums and guitars. It was worth the eight hours of driving to get to do this (4 up and 4 back) and to get to share this with our good friends the Zimmermans from Ashland, and with... Read more
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
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