February 2007 Archives

I don't know if the discipline of apologetics is overrated or not, but one aspect of apologetics seems to be underappreciated.  While apologetics may be useful in the exercise of evangelism (helping give people reasons to believe, which of course... continue

Readers who lament the undeserved popularity of Richard Dawkins's book The God Delusion will be heartened by the sharp criticism the book receives in the January 11 issue of The New York Review of Books.  While generally unsympathetic to biblical... continue

Previous posts have mourned the passing of Al Groves, who taught Old Testament at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.  I was blessed by a letter Al wrote to his friends, to be shared at the time of his funeral.  The letter... continue

Crossway has just published a new book, edited by Rick Phillips: Only One Way?: Reaffirming the Exclusive Truth Claims of Christianity.Contributors are Richard D. Phillips, David F. Wells, Peter R. Jones, Philip Graham Ryken, J. Ligon Duncan, and D. A.... continue

Lisa (full disclosure: a woman to whom I have been married for 19 years) received the following email this week from a distant friend: "Tell your husband that he is on my iPOD between the Doobie Brothers and Duran Duran... continue

Just in from the metropolis of Jackson, Mississippi. FBI agents everywhere in SUVs, talking into the their shirt-cuffs. Weird that, isn't it? Do they think we don't know who they are? Heard one of them saying something about "Plonker Rodney..."... continue

In personal response to Derek's question: by celebrating their wives with tangible expressions of matrimonial affection.  But I hope it's not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising from a healthy Calvinist doctrine of total depravity: "Many a... continue

From Makoto Fujimura's "Refractions" essay on a New York exhibit of letters from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Here Fujimura is reflecting on the declaration of Jesus that wars will happen:"In Jesus' realism of 'these things must happen,' he was... continue

It is good to see John Tweeddale introducing the work of Richard Muller -- a world-class scholar who has done much to rehabilitate a healthy understanding of Reformed theology after Calvin.  I read Muller's works on post-Reformation Reformed dogmatics early... continue

Bruce Metzger, George L. Collord Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on Tuesday.... continue