When it comes to modern conveniences, many Christians are confused about the relationship of their hot and cold running water, say, to the worldview that we inherited from the Enlightenment, the outlook of modernity. If we reject the Enlightenment (and who shouldn’t?), does that mean we must be relegated to the grass huts? Put another …
Books By Family
100 Cupboards: (Part 1 in the Cupboards Trilogy) Building Her House: Chestnut King, The: (Part 3 in the Cupboards Trilogy) Dandelion Fire: (Part 2 in the Cupboards Trilogy) Death By Living Dragon and the Garden, The: Dragon’s Tooth, The: (Part One in the Ashtown Burials) Drowned Vault, The (Part Two in The Ashtown Burials) Fit …
You Probably Know Someone Who Could Use This Encouragement
Since Loving theLittle Years came out, we have heard of a lot of people eager to share it with others. So we thought we would help out.
You Know, Stuff
There is a sense in which (I have argued) every thoughtful Christian must be a conservative. The Holy Spirit has done a lot thus far in the history of our people, and we must live up to what we have already attained. We must conserve it. There is another sense in which we are to …
Calling All Writers
New St. Andrews just received approval from our accreditation organization for a change in one of our grad programs, and I am as excited about the prospects for this as I have been about anything we have done here at the college thus far. Here are few paragraphs from NSA’s website explaining some of the …
Wiener Schnitzel is UnAmerican
Details are just beginning to emerge about some American atrocities in Afghanistan. Some of the individuals accused are already on trial, which is at it should be. The presenting problem for the politicos and spin doctors in this situation appears to be the fact that there are allegedly supposed to be a multitude of photographs …
Last Concert Post
The Logos Benefit Concert is this evening, and I am now in a position to announce that the first chord played this evening will be D Major. But do not fret — there will be plenty more of them throughout the course of the evening. Actually, the guitar players need to fret, otherwise there won’t …
Seven Reasons Why We Can’t Water Down the Lake of Fire
John Piper and I have been writing about a possible way in which my recent video response to Rob Bell’s universalism could be troubling. Near the end of the clip I echo a theological point made by C.S. Lewis about the nature of damnation, and how Hell is in some way “chosen” by all its …
And Have a Cold Nose
So as a world tour kind of thing, it is not so much, but still we all have to go up to the Logos Knights Court for the concert on Friday night, so it is kind of a tour. Let’s call it a there-and-back-again tour. Anyhow, what’s a tour without a T-shirt? These were graciously …
Like Pirates on the Beach
I received a question from a reader who agreed with my general thinking about government robberies, but wondered if I believed that any taxation whatever amounted to theft. And if I thought that some taxation was, and some was not, then how to tell the difference? Is it simply done on the basis of what …