Something you should know about: the weblog Old Life: Reformed Faith and Practice and the sporadically published quarterly newsletter the Nicotine Theological Journal edited by my friend D. G. (Darryl) Hart and John Muether ( subscription information here and archives here ). Both the weblog and . . . . Continue Reading »
As churches large, small, and at-large give consideration to the broad social issues of our day, one complaint that is frequently offered is that the church is doing little or nothing in such-and-such a field. The answer provided to resolve this complaint is that the responsibility must now lie with . . . . Continue Reading »
When Medicare Part D passed, the government gave private companies subsidies to induce them to keep retirees on private health care that covered prescriptions, toward the end of saving Medicare money by keeping those people off the prescription drug benefit rolls. Obamacare reduced these . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things editor Joseph Bottum considers the recent health care legislation : Instead of falling—or rising, if the left proves correct—on the great wave of Armageddon, we must wait, in this trough of exhaustion, to learn what happens next. Our apocalypse is a slow one; it smothers us . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times is a fascinating newspaper for the study of bias. Yes, of course we all have our biases and blind spots, and every publication has a point of view, but there is something about the Times ’ style and tone that suggest a loftier than usual view of their own objectivity and . . . . Continue Reading »
Does music shape not only our souls but the laws of a nation? Roger Scruton believes so : We know of music that is good-humoured, lascivious, gentle, bold, chaste, self-indulgent, sentimental, reserved, and generous: and all those words describe moral virtues and vices, which we are as little . . . . Continue Reading »
For the sake of balance, there are good reasons why Catholics become evangelicals. Books & Culture’s “book notes” features a post by Mark Noll about a book written by Chris Castaldo who is on the staff of College Church in Wheaton. He writes,Yet as a former Catholic who . . . . Continue Reading »
For now, I think the fever is banking, and global warming hysteria is abating. This is not to say, of course, that the scientific debate over global warming is settled. To the contrary: With skeptics finally having a voice in the argument, it will grow even more intense. But that . . . . Continue Reading »
What reality? Evolution—should the data become “overwhelmingly in favor.” So says Professor Bruce Waltke, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Reformed Theological Seminary, in a video from the BioLogos Foundation, posted by Chaplain Mike at the Internet Monk blog.Given the . . . . Continue Reading »
And then there were 32. After a brutal round of upsets, blowouts, and close calls we have narrowed our list of 64 in half. [caption id=”attachment_14086” align=”alignright” width=”150” caption=”Click to Download Round 2 Brackets”] [/caption] . . . . Continue Reading »
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