Justin Taylor, editor at Crossway Books, has a great post–entitled “The Best Christian Novel You Have Never Heard Of”– on the Swedish Lutheran novelist Bo Giertz. He quotes Leland Ryken, a Wheaton professor I have known for a long time who is one of the top evangelical literary
The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has issued a document on solving the world’s financial problems. In the course of those pontifications, the Vatican committee calls for the establishment of a world government, a “world political authority.” From the document: On the way to
Belated birthday wishes, that is. Yesterday, October 25, would have been the 200th birthday of C. F. W. Walther, the pastor/theologian who led a small band of persecuted confessional Lutherans away from the arch-liberal state church in Germany to religious freedom in America, whereupon he
In honor of his 80th birthday, Christianity Today reprints a fascinating interview with Thomas Oden, a formerly liberal theologian who discovered the church fathers and who now has been advocating a historically orthodox Christianity in all of the theological traditions. In the interview, he tells
Often researchers find what they want to find. More persuasive is when researchers find what they do not want to find but report it anyway. A new study of climate change was funded by skeptics of global warming. They took into account the skeptics’ critiques
Raymond Ibrahim details what is happening to Christians in Egypt and how the atrocities are covered–jargon for “reporting” but containing the metaphor of “hiding’– in our media: Sunday [October 9], the Egyptian military opened fire on thousands of Christians protesting in Maspero, Cairo. In the
Scientists measuring brain waves have discovered the most relaxing piece of music ever, an artificially composed tune called “Weightless.” It’s so relaxing that they are warning people not to drive while listening to it. To say it’s relaxing is another way of saying that it’s
We’ll be out of Iraq by Christmas. So says the president. The earlier plan was to withdraw nearly all of the troops but to leave behind a contingent to help keep the peace. But the Iraqi government did not agree to that. So the only
Yet another Arab strongman has died, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. He was the heir to the throne, but a powerful ruler in his own right. The current king is 87 and sick. Expect another chapter in the Arab Spring: Saudi Arabia’s ruling monarchy
Last Sunday Pastor Douthwaite preached on Matthew 22:15-22, about the coin with Jesus asking whose likeness and inscription is on it. But then Pastor Douthwaite took the text in a direction I had never thought of before. What is God’s likeness and inscription, and how
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