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September 2003

September 08, 2003
a book unread on the shelf ?E a rebuke
September 08, 2003
“Do good and lend, without hoping for anything in return.” That is the heart of...
September 08, 2003
“Do good and lend, without hoping for anything in return.” That is the heart of...
September 08, 2003
The transition from Luke 6:11 to Luke 6:12ff is highly significant. We know it’s significant...
September 07, 2003
David Brooks has a typically delightful and instructive piece in the current issue of Atlantic...
September 07, 2003
David Brooks has a typically delightful and instructive piece in the current issue of Atlantic...
September 07, 2003
In the “What Vietnam syndrome?” category, Lawrence Kaplan reports in The New Republic that opinion...
September 07, 2003
In the “What Vietnam syndrome?” category, Lawrence Kaplan reports in The New Republic that opinion...
September 07, 2003
James Wood is always worth reading. His latest review in The New Republic examines the...
September 07, 2003
James Wood is always worth reading. His latest review in The New Republic examines the...
September 06, 2003
The exhortation from September 7, 2003: A Pharisee and a publican went to the doctor,...
September 06, 2003
In Luke 5, the friends of the paralytic cannot get him to Jesus, and so...
September 06, 2003
Sermon outline for September 7 (though I’m reconsidering my take on Jesus’ “parable” about the...
September 05, 2003
For several years, I have been assigning W. H. Auden’s poem “The Shield of Achilles”...
September 05, 2003
Years ago, I enjoyed Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker , a superbly written account of Lewis’s...
September 04, 2003
A truly amazing article by Khaled Anatolios of the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Cambridge,...
September 04, 2003
Some time ago, John Robbins put my name in a list of theologians influenced by...
September 04, 2003
It’s intriguing that some of our best historians these days are evangelicals. George Marsden’s biography...
September 04, 2003
Eugene Genovese has a typically pungent and pugnacious review of Mark Noll’s America’s God in...
September 03, 2003
I’ve long thought that open theology, the notion that God does not and cannot know...
September 03, 2003
Drudge has a link to an article concerning an all-girl gang in San Francisco that...
September 03, 2003
In a post-war world, you need stealth, finesse, cunning. You need, in short, Odysseus, the...
September 02, 2003
There are, I think, two forms of sleeplessness: The fretting, turning, twisting, aged kind, With...
September 02, 2003
Inspired by Gary Hotham, and by the world around me, I sometimes try my hand...
September 01, 2003
Even after spending a week mulling over Jesus’ temptations and preaching on Luke 4, I...
September 01, 2003
Even after spending a week mulling over Jesus’ temptations and preaching on Luke 4, I...

August 2003

August 31, 2003
Another review from the August 15 TLS summarizes the findings of Richard J. McNally’s Remembering...
August 31, 2003
In his recent book, Seeds of Wealth: Four Plants that Made Men Rich , Henry...
August 31, 2003
Joshua Muravchik has an entertaining critique of the current wave of “neo-con” spotting in the...
August 31, 2003
Joshua Muravchik has an entertaining critique of the current wave of “neo-con” spotting in the...
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