Del's asked about summer reading. Here's mine: Theology: Johannes Vanderkemp, The Heidelberg Catechism ; David F Wells , The Courage to be Protestant. Two books on my passions: Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. After Emil Zatopek, Owens has to be one of...

You'll find an interesting response from Christopher Hitchens to Pat Buchanan's latest book (on how World War 2 was `unnecessary' here . I include it here because of the influence Buchanan has over many members of the Christian Right. For those of my grandfather's generation, Churchill's problem...

A friend brought a fascinating article on the internet to my attention. You can find it here . It's worth reading for a number of reasons, not least the image of a virtually blind Nietzsche banging away at an early typewriter and realising how the very technology he is using is changing his prose...

Those of us (yes, I include myself) with busts of the great Thomas Jefferson on our fireplaces and who think that separation of church and state is a most excellent thing, will no doubt be encouraged at the news coming out of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as reported in Christianity...