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John Piper gave a rousing address on William Tyndale yesterday at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theology Society (ETS). The address was sponsored by Crossway Books as part of its ongoing effort to promote the English Standard Version (ESV). Justin, please provide a link if and when the...

Thanks Phil! I'm at home and in bed with "the dreaded lurgy" -- some kind of cold/flu thing. I got the flu shot but I guess it didn't work! Stephen Dawkins -- who is he? I meant Richard Dawkins. In any case, check out David Robertson's review. [Scroll down].

As a sign of where political correctness has taken things in Britain, today's The Times as this article on why three University Christian Unions in Britain are preparing to take legal action against university authorities for not allowing non-Christians to address their meetings or sit on ruling...

Phil: Here's the original lecture manuscript upon which Piper's ETS lecture was based: Always Singing One Note--A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale Lived and Died . Here is an excerpt: "It is ironic and sad that today supposedly avant-garde Christian writers can strike this cool, evasive,...

My friend Chun Lai recently traveled home to Hong Kong and Australia to minister to his family after the death of his father. The invitation to participate in the funeral service posed some real challenges, as Chun explains: "The Lord gave me something to say when I was at a complete loss for words...

Absent from the blog for a few days, I missed Del Boy's question re. Weber. First, never heard of this Carl Maria character -- unless he was the guy who stood in for David Lee Roth when he left the rock band Van Tilen.

Richard Dawkins will not appreciate the math, but probablitity theorists now claim that it is 62% certain that God exists, according to yesterday's The Times . Is this where we cite the text about God "laughing"?

Terry Eagleton's review of Richard Dawkins' latest book is well worth a read, demonstrating that it isn't just orthodox Christians who struggle with RD's portrayal of religion. TE is one of the funniest and sharpest literary critics around, a former Catholic who was a close friend of Herbert McCabe...

The Who played Philly on Saturday night. America may have the greatest rock poets in Dylan and The Boss, but England (Wales strangely absent, Del-Boy....) still has the greatest live rock band in the world.

From Charles Spurgeon's sermon on "Peter's Restoration" ("And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord"; Luke 22:60-61): "I like to think of the singular combination: the crowing of the cock,...