David T. Koyzis

The Bible is not just a collection of ancient texts; it’s a single, unified story of creation, fall and redemption. Here is a wonderfully clever and winsome way of getting this . . . . Continue Reading »

My friend Ray Pennings has written an insightful op-ed piece in The Globe and Mail that is worth reading: Don’t blame religion for Anders Breivik. An excerpt:The crimes of which Anders Breivik stands accused don’t show how religion can inspire evil. Quite the contrary: They are proof . . . . Continue Reading »

Never mind the radio and television preachers we hear so much about. The two most influential figures on English-speaking evangelicalism in the 20th and 21st centuries were, not Baptist or Pentecostal, but  members in good standing of the Church of England: C. S. Lewis and John R. W. Stott, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Frank Schaeffer does it again: Christian Terror in Norway: I Predicted Terror from the Religious Right in My New Book “Sex, Mom and . . . . Continue Reading »

A newsworthy item from the CNN Belief Blog:It just so happens that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which is weathering a storm of criticism around newspaper ethics, also owns the rights to the world’s best-selling English Bible, the New International Version.Could this lead to an explosion . . . . Continue Reading »

My great-grandmother, Lucy Jane Bentley Hyder, died several years before I was born, so I have no personal memories of her. However, I do have her family Bible, a hefty King James version printed in 1892 that has been passed down the generations and came into my possession not quite twenty years . . . . Continue Reading »

In 1931 the Statute of Westminster elevated the so-called Dominions within the British Empire to a status of equality with the United Kingdom itself. These included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, the Union of South Africa and the Irish Free State. The Empire thus became the . . . . Continue Reading »

An acquaintance recently called to my attention two paragraphs from the Second Helvetic Confession, one of the confessional standards of the Swiss and Hungarian Reformed Churches, as well as of the Presbyterian Church (USA):CHAPTER XXIIIOf the Prayers of the Church, of Singing, and of Canonical . . . . Continue Reading »

Are we on the brink of an ecological “Great Disruption”? Paul Gilding thinks so, reports Thomas Friedman.Gilding cites the work of the Global Footprint Network, an alliance of scientists, which calculates how many “planet Earths” we need to sustain our current growth rates. . . . . Continue Reading »

My Brazilian alter-ego, Lucas Freire, has alerted me to the following volume available via Google Books: All the French Psalm Tunes with English Words, a collection of Psalms accorded to the verses and tunes used in the reformed Churches of France and Germany (London: T. Harper, 1632). This is the . . . . Continue Reading »