Some fun news this morning—when I checked the Amazon rankings, Is Christianity Good for the World? had broken the 10,000 barrier (9,652), which is something I think we should be able to deal with. But the reason for bringing it up is to remind you to get your copies from Barnes & Noble or Amazon. …
The Ironic Fairy of History
Oliver O’Donovan has just released a book that provides a classic illustration of why the moderate and progressive segments of the Anglican communion in the UK, Canada, and the US are all sick unto death. At the same time, he has done good work before this — in The Desire of Nations, for example. And …
Okay, Here’s the Deal
Okay, here’s the deal. My debate exchange with Christopher Hitchens has now been released in book form, but if you want it right away, I need to explain to you the best way to get it. We have ourselves what publishers consider to be a pleasant kind of problem. The book is published by Canon …
Late to the Party, As Usual
The Church of England, as usual, is late to the party. In a masterpiece of bad timing, when the intellectual establishment has finally been rocked back on its heels by serious questions about the viability of Darwinism, questions that won’t go away, and die-hard adherents of the Darwinian old-timey religion have had to resort to …
Chad Lester”s Shiner
I know that a number of you have been on the edge of your seats, wanting to find out exactly how Chad Lester got his black eye. Well, the chapter with that particular narrative in it has now been posted. Step right this way.
Honesty in Academics
We are a few weeks into a new school year, and we have a congregation that contains many students. Not only are there many students here, but there are many students here who are enrolled in very challenging programs—programs where failure is often a real possibility. Now in every demanding circumstance, when you have a …
Bread and Wine From Salem
In Genesis 14:18, Scripture tells us that Abraham was met by Melchizedek. “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.” We are expressly taught in the New Testament that Melchizedek is a type of Christ. If we take that type and apply it …
The Politics of Blood
From the interview with Charles Gibson, it appears that Sarah Palin is entirely on board with John McCain’s foreign policy — a foreign policy that I am not on board with. I am not a neocon, and I have no sympathy with the broader neocon objectives, which can be described as a democratic and secular …
Barak Was a Great Warrior
One of the things revealed in many of the comments for these posts on Sarah Palin is that certain subtexts of what “every Christian knows” are quite prevalent, and they do a fine job in controlling the narratives that we try to tell or try to read. One of these is the shared assumption that …
Red State Readers
This is really cool. Amazon has a map up that shows America in its familiar red state/blue state guise, only this time the calculations are based, not on votes, but on book purchases. That map can be found here. The results are pretty surprising.