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Tradition and Innovation in Nuce
Defending the possibility of innovation in doctrine is just another way of asserting sola Scriptura. It’s a…
Triune Chord
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s contribution to Trinity and Salvation is on the Trinity and music. Fitzgerald overstates when she called…
Serious Puns
According to Frederick Ahl (Metaformations, 18), we have an irrefutable syllogism to demonstrate that puns aren’t found…
A Plea on Behalf of Victims of Barbarism in Iraq
I have created a website, iraqrescue.org, at which I have posted “A Plea on Behalf of the…
Pierre Ryckmans, RIP
Pierre Ryckmans died in August. He was a Belgian trained in law who lived in Taiwan, where…
More on Pornography
I am grateful to Greg for his thoughtful supplement to my post on porn because this is…
Will the Miracle Survive?
Stephen Mansfield remembers what Kurdistan was like in the early 1990s: “To be among the Kurds in…
Introducing Trinity
Declan Marmion and Rik Van Nieuwenhove’s 2011 Introduction to the Trinity is an excellent introduction to both the…
Don’t Forget the Christians
This past weekend, the United States began to intervene in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northern Iraq.…
Triple Threat
The dragon mounts three attacks on the woman (Revelation 12). First, he stands ready to attack the…
Griper Laureate
“The world is going to hell in a hurry,” writes Charles Simic in his latest outburst. “At my…
Mother in Heaven
The Bible’s chapter breaks are often misleading. They can be worse. The chapter break between Revelation 11-12…
Libertarian Futures?
Some Republicans have been saying that libertarianism is the wave of the GOP future, since it appeals…
SuperMoses
Responding to a recent post on superheroes, a friend pointed me to this, where Betsy Phillips points out…
Beautiful and Sublime in History Writing
Haydn White argued that historical writing was disciplined as it moved from the sublime to the beautiful.…