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Considering All Things on All Things Considered
For those of you who have access to a radio, Nate will be on All Things Considered this afternoon, right near the end of the first hour. That would be approximately 4:50 pm. For those of you here in Moscow, that should be 91.7 on your dial. And if you are on the East Coast, …
A Very Fine Review
Jason Hood has reviewed Nate’s Tilt-a-Whirl DVD for Books & Culture, and absolutely nails it. He not only understands the whole point of the book and DVD (which is a reviewer’s job), but he also reproduces and expands the point by reviewing in the spirit of the thing (which is above and beyond). You can …
So Why Does Ashtown Start in Wisconsin?
Nate was interviewed this morning in Seattle, and there are some fun details to be found here.
Logic Without Color or Weight
“Once you grant that the world works this way, anyone who comes bustling up to you with stories about men who came back from the dead is a prima facie nutjob. Simple. But you need to look at your closed-system-universe again and look more closely at the price tag this time. Not only is this …
The Importance of Child Dedication
I grant that “train” may not be the best translation for the crucial verb in Prov. 22:6. May I suggest (dynamic equivalence) “baptize”? The verb is hanak. It is the verb from which we get the derivative Hanukkah, which means dedication or consecration. It refers to inauguration or dedication, usually in a cultic setting. The …
Outruning Your Own Headlights
As it happens, Justin Taylor just posted on a similar topic. You can read his careful treatment here. Yesterday, I compared the promises of God concerning our children to His promises to answer our prayers. I did not want to say that they are exactly parallel in every respect, but simply to illustrate how we …
Faith or Presumption in Child Rearing?
Because of the condition of our sinful world, words from God’s law are frequently “hard words.” But, for the same reason, but in a different sense, words of gospel and promise are even harder. In my books on family, I have often emphasized that the rearing of godly children is not accomplished “by works,” but …
No Relation
It is sometimes hard for us to grasp how profound the problem of modern superficiality is. Religious life in America is, by and large, superficial from the very top of the wet spot on the pavement to the very bottom of the wet spot on the pavement. We are, of course, talking about Joel Osteen. …
The Final Ashlockolypse
Okay, this is a shameless appeal, but more than that, this is an edifying shameless appeal, containing three parts all told. This concerns Nate’s writing career, and I believe I can speak here with a freedom I would not have if I were talking, say, about my own books. First, this is because Scripture says …