A little while ago I submitted an article to the “On Faith” feature over at the Washington Post, and they ran it today. It is entitled Foxy News, and you can read it here.
A Poem from over the Pond
John Fuller’s Collected Poems were published in 1996, and his Stones and Fires won the Forward Prize in 1997. His latest collection, Pebble & I, released Spring 2010 from Chatto and Windus. He was Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2002. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society …
Smelly Little Orthodoxies
Of course, on the question of the relationship of clear writing and clear thinking, George Orwell is indispensible. And so it is indeed fitting that my friend Peter Hitchens has won the Orwell prize, England’s most prestigious writing award. Go, fight, win. The judges said: “In choosing this year’s winner, we went back to Orwell. …
Here’s What I’m Talking About
I have been blogging through Peter Hitchens’ The Rage Against God. That fine book is now available here in the states, and, in particular, in Idaho to be precise, it is available through Canon Press. Here you go.
A Good Place for It
Now here is a real deal. The president of Westminster Seminary in Philly, Peter Lillback, has done some wonderful work on George Washington. Peter was just on Glenn Beck, and his biography of George Washington shot to number one on Amazon. That’s a good place for it. Well, as it turns out, Peter was here …
Looking for the City
Three points to anyone who can point out the Edwardsian riff and the Deadhead allusion.
The Greedy Gusses at OilCo
When dealing with large numbers, we shouldn’t want to assume that every math error is indicative of deep spiritual problems. That is a good way to escalate policy debates into fundamental religious conflicts. At the same time, when the same error is committed over and over again, when the mistake is pointed out by responsible …
Creation is Thick, I Tell You
Think of this another way. In the gnostic order of things, the material world is always convicted, damned. It is the problem. In the Christian world tugged on by gnosticism, the material world is not condemned — the orthodox faith forbids this because God made the world, and Jesus rose from the dead in it. …
The Barkity Barkity Midnight Dog
In order to sort some important things out, we have to do some further work on the relationship of giver and gift. I propose to begin by discussing the relationship between created giver and created gift, and then moving up to the much more complicated relationship between the Uncreated Personal Giver and the created personal …
A Full Tank of Gas and Lots of Wyoming Ahead
A week or so ago, I wrote about Piperian Hedonism 3.0. Following that, a friend helpfully pointed me to Chapter 11 of John Piper’s book, When I Don’t Desire God. That chapter is entitled “How to Wield the World in the Fight for Joy.” And that chapter is filled, of course, with Piper’s usual exegetical …