In case anyone needs to hear me say it, props to DJP and Phil Johnson who are my betters by a long shot. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.And props to the channel rats at #prosapologian who knew Challies when he was dumpster-diving for web design work, and when I was . . . . Continue Reading »
Is it possible to be legalistic about gospel-centrality?The day I first chewed on that question most seriously was the same day my friend Pete Wilson (no relation) posted a link to a podcasted critique of one of his sermons. Now, Pete’s ways are (generally) not my ways. I have serious concerns . . . . Continue Reading »
CNBC has asked me to join a panel on the dollar’s decline tonight at 7 pm on Larry Kudlow’s show. These things are always tentative, but that’s the present . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK’s rationing board NICE has urged hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices around the UK to implement the “Liverpool Care Pathway,” under which patients supposedly near death are sedated into unconsciousness and denied food and water. There are now indications that . . . . Continue Reading »
Many thanks to our fearless readers of the last six months. I’ll still be blogging several days a week at First Thoughts, as well as updating my personal blog, Castle in the Sea. We’re already off the blog bar, so I don’t know whether anyone will see this, but if you do, . . . . Continue Reading »
From Matthew (not Anderson :D ), Jesus offered:And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the . . . . Continue Reading »
I know this is, in blogosphere time, old news, but this blog is new and currently on the subject of evangelical definitions, so fuh-giva-ness please.Bell defines evangelical for a Boston Globe interviewer thusly: I embrace the term evangelical, if by that we mean a belief that we together can . . . . Continue Reading »
Lo, October is hastening by, and the great Solemnity of All Saints is nearly upon us. If you were thinking of celebrating with vintage religious goods of one kind or another, here are some ideas.Vintage Medals: Saint BenedictSaint Maria GorettiMary Star of HeavenSaint InesHoly TrinityVintage . . . . Continue Reading »
This past Saturday I took my three oldest sons to see the movie Where the Wild Things Are. Some Christians are all exercised about the fact that the movie might be too frightening for children. They’re wrong. The movie is not a great one, but that’s not the reason why. As a matter of . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt:We agree on a great deal, but . . . allow me to be a bit puckish . . .It cannot be said that knowledge of the amazing career of Brett Favre is essential to a happy American life in the same sense that virtue is necessary. There is, after all, a possible world where one is both happy, a good . . . . Continue Reading »