The next chapter of Dreher’s Crunchy Cons was really, really good. I say this because he went after some pet peeves of mine with a meat axe. The chapter was entitled “Home,” but a more informative title would have been something like “The Architecture of Home.” “Drive through a historic district of any town or …
The Problem of the Old Testament
I just finished reading Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns, a book that was, in unequal measures, edifying and frustrating. First, the strengths. Enns does a superb job, on a number of issues, of raising questions that easily frustrate traditional Bible believers. This is because traditional Bible believers want (in the name of inerrancy) a …
Find Out Who She Is And Marry Her
I am currently reading, and very much enjoying, Debbie Maken’s book, Getting Serious About Getting Married. My wife read it and reviewed it for Credenda a few months back. This is one of those “about time” books. My father, who has been counseling young people about affairs of the heart for half a century or …
Salt and Vinegar
I spent a good portion of the day in the air, working my way back to you, babe. No, no, that’s not right. Working my way to the ACCS convention in Covington, KY. And, as is my wont on airplanes, I got a goodish bit of reading in. The book I finished today was Ann …
Rushdoony on Porn
Back in the eighties I read through a small hill of Rushdoony’s books, profiting greatly from many of them. One that I was never able to get my hands on was his The Politics of Pornography. But it has just been released again by Ross House Books under the new title Noble Savages. The folks …
Anabaptist Medicine
Just recently finished a very informative book called Examining Alternative Medicine put out by IVP, and thought it was so pertinent we are going to use it for a number of weeks in our Sunday evening men’s forum. Written by three Christian gentlemen (an M.D., a D.O, and a civilian), the book walks through a …
Sometimes An Excuse Is Just An Excuse
Just finished a book called The Lost Message of Jesus, by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann. The book was a mix — a small handful of good insights, a few places where I was glad they didn’t give that part of the store away, a few sections of thundering naivete, and overall that general bleh …
More On IVP
Since I posted something on the Judy Brown problem earlier today, I thought I should follow up by posting the following statement released by IVP just a short time ago. Here it is: InterVarsity Press April 8, 2005 InterVarsity Press learned on April 7, 2005, that Dr. Judy L. Brown, the contributor of an article …
IVP. Again.
We should want to categorize something like this in the category of beyond unspeakable. Judy L. Brown, an evangelical egalitarian, contributed to an IVP book called Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy. Nothing out of the ordinary so far — just the normal IVP monkeyshines. She was the pastor of a Salem Covenant Worship Center, …
Looking for My Feet
Manfully, I continue to work through The Next Reformation by Carl Raschke. In the course of my reading this morning, I came across this. “The philosophical quest for unfailing presuppositions is not Christian; it is outright paganism” (p. 113, emphasis his). Presuppositions are not something you go off and hunt for, like the Holy Grail. …