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 fact, Where . . . . Continue Reading »
John Mark, if the question is going to be about having fun versus not having fun, well, then it is over before it begins in earnest. But that is a false dichotomy of your own creation, not mine or Hanson’s. Surely what’s not at stake is the enjoyment and delight in the . . . . Continue Reading »
For some bizarre reason Republicans in the New York 23rd decided to nominate a candidate who is happily pro-choice and against traditional marriage. This is because the New York Republican Party is so successful that it can afford to drive out many of its natural constituencies. (Nominated in a . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a lot, of course, that could and needs to be said about defining “the gospel.” But here’s one important thing to say: you can’t understand the biblical gospel apart from the biblical storyline.Don Carson puts it well in his essay, “The Biblical Gospel” . . . . Continue Reading »
Maybe we can work out some sort of exchange program with The Corner. They can loan us an agnostic and we can send over an evangelical.To be fair, I suspect there are a number of evangelicals that write for that blog who just don’t identify themselves as evangelical on there (Mark Hemingway or . . . . Continue Reading »
The discussion on the question “What is an evangelical? has been both fascinating and illuminating. The brilliance of the responses doesn’t surprise me (after all, I picked these folks) but I am surprised by how much Ias a lifelong, unapologeticly self-defined evangelicalam . . . . Continue Reading »
I would suggest a “Some Of Our Best Friends” Award for those blogs or political organizations that partly depend on evangelical votes or money, but in fact feature few if any evangelicals.They can be relied on to say, “Some of our best friends are evangelicals. . . ” but can . . . . Continue Reading »
nothing meriting it . . . our selection as “best evangelical group blog” (I prefer this one) leads me to suspect that the Nobel in Literature cannot be far . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve been elected the best group blog in Evangelicalism ... by Justin Taylor.My personal opinion is that it comes in at a very admirable #2.JT’s mom voted, btw, and she said Justin’s post yesterday was the best post on the best group blog in Evangelicalism. I’m just . . . . Continue Reading »