All right, everybody, here we go. Canon Press is in the process of uploading their titles to googlebooks, and the process has been completed for twenty-three of them. Give us a few months, and the rest of the catalog will be uploaded. Many publishers just have a portion of the book available, but with these …
The Clarity A Night on the Sofa Produces
Green Baggins has begun a process of working through the Federal Vision issue of Credenda. He worries in his last few sentences that I might feel like he hit below the belt in this exchange, but I don’t think that at all. There are a couple of roundhouses where he doesn’t hit anything at all, …
Christopher and Peter
Okay. Got home from work, and caught the second part of the Hitchens/Hitchens debate. Christopher posed a set of questions which he claims to have asked a lot, and also to which he claims to have heard nothing in response but the sound of crickets in the distance. His central question here was: can anyone …
Nate in Boise
For our friends in the Boise area, Nate was recently added as a participant in a children’s lit festival, sponsored by Rediscovered Bookshop. There will be various events that Nate will be participating in that will be open to the public, with varying kinds of registration required. You can get more information here. There will …
Hitchens and Hitchens
Peter Hitchens, a conservative Anglican, will be debating his atheistic brother Christopher Hitchens on matters of faith, the war, and culture. This will happen on youtube at 7:30 this evening (Eastern time). Nancy and I have been really blessed by Peter and Eve’s gracious hospitality in the past, and I have also tangled with Christopher …
Just Turned the Third Corner
It is my great pleasure to announce some really fun news in the Credenda department. We just got the latest issue back from the printers (which means that your copy should be in the mail), and the first thing you will notice when you get it is that the layout and look has been completely …
Sin in Luke
The word hamartano is found in two sections of Luke, used twice in each place. The first is where it is rendered as sin (Luke 15:18,21), and in the second as trespass. The first place is where the prodigal son confesses to his father that he has sinned. In the second passage, Jesus says that …
And With a Jutted Jaw
“It is not pleasant to watch brethren preaching the gospel of peace in that pugnacious style: yet it is by no means rare to hear of an evangelist preaching a free Christ with a clinched fist. It is amusing to see them putting themselves into an attitude and saying, ‘Come unto me,’ and then, with …
A Floating Poverty Line
“Sentimentality, as we have seen, finds expression in autonomous, pragmatically based decisions on right and wrong, and in the refusal to declare absolute standards on all matters, including poverty. What sometimes seems to be an intellectual vacuity in humanitarian polemics is associated with this trait, which we may think of as the propensity to define …
Heavier Than Wet Sand
INTRODUCTION: In this series, we are considering the temptations presented to us by desire, envy, competition, and ambition. Last week we looked at desire—the quarry from which many sins are hewn—and is a word which, thankfully for the writers of rock ballads, rhymes with fire. We now turn to the thing that our spirits’ desires …