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Uprooting the Christian Masculinity Complex
Do You Have the Balls to Worship at America’s Manliest Church?” That’s the html header of a recent…
Embodiment and Religion
Susan Babbitt’s Humanism and Embodiment isn’t a book of theology. Babbitt draws on Marxist and feminist sources as…
Johannine Theology
Everyone knows that John’s writings are vastly important in the New Testament and in Christian theology, but…
Is John Anti-Semitic?
John talks much of “the Jews” as the enemies of Christ, and this has led many to…
Sex Trafficking Lecture
Justin Holcomb, co-founder of Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST), will speak in Birmingham, Alabama on…
Written Allegorically
In a recent article on Galatians 4:21-31, Ardel Caneday argues in part that Galatians 4:22 should govern…
Why Scotland and Ireland Went Different Ways
I In St. Andrews on Thursday, September 18, I voted in the Scottish referendum and the following…
We Need to Ban Meat
Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports that anti-incest laws in Germany could be struck down on the grounds that they…
In A Rush
“In 1849, some ninety thousand young men swarmed to the gold fields (two-thirds of them were American);…
Rich, Poor, and Abortion
Kevin Williamson and Jonah Goldberg are once again training their guns on the slow, fat target of…
First Links — 9.25.14
Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the ShadowsJim Yardley, New York Times Mormon Music After the Mormon MomentJeremy…
Ancient Christian Worship
Andrew McGowan’s Ancient Christian Worship is a very fine introduction to the subject. Though it is up-to-date academically,…
Redeeming “Us”
In a 1989 article on Paul’s use of Deuteronomy 21 in Galatians 3, Ardel Caneday argues that…
Are Doers Cursed?
Paul cites Deuteronomy 27:26 in Galatians 3. The passage in Deuteronomy says, “Cursed is everyone who does…
The Words of Canon Andrew White
We can’t go out into the streets and do evangelism and tell them what the gospel is,…