Justin Taylor posts a startling quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer from Life Together, about what a Christian “who lives beneath the cross of Jesus” knows about sin, himself, and other sinners. And how this knowledge of the human heart, as revealed by the Cross, goes deeper
I previously blogged about my contribution–a review of Huckleberry Finn–to a blog series that Justin Taylor is running on “novels every Christian should consider reading.” I urge you to read the whole series, which includes different Christians’ take on classic novels like Tom Jones, entertaining
President Obama announced that the United States would launch a “relentless” air campaign, co-ordinated with allied forces on the ground (though not including American ground troops) to “destroy” the Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL. (more…)
Brett McCracken, author of Hipster Christianity, argues that there are intrinsic contradictions inherent in the various attempts to make Christianity “cool.” See what he says after the jump, whereupon I offer some thoughts on my own on the efforts to adapt Christianity to one culture
Justin Taylor, the publisher at Crossway and a notable blogger, is running a series on “novels that every Christian should consider reading.” He asked me to write about the great American novel that is Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain fan that I am, I was glad
I was 12 years old when I watched Lyndon Johnson’s campaign ad that showed a little girl picking daisies followed by the mushroom cloud of a nuclear blast. Even at the time, I understood the message: Don’t vote for that extremist Barry Goldwater! He will
In our postmodern times, morality is supposed to be relative. To speak of “good” and “evil” is to be absolutist and retrograde. But now the atrocities of the Islamic State/ISIS have people recognizing evil once again. (more…)
Rep. Paul Ryan (R, Wisconsin), in his new book entitled The Way Forward, discusses “the space between the individual and the state” and says that Progressives keep wanting to fill that space with the government. (more…)
DNA evidence may have solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper, the serial killer who brutally murdered 11 prostitutes in Victorian England. A shawl that was reportedly found on the body of one of his victims had blood that has been identified as having come
Henri Matisse was one of the great artists of the 20th century. What most people do not know, however–and what exhibitions and art critics tend to ignore–is that Matisse underwent a dramatic and life-changing conversion to Christianity. (more…)
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