Denny Burk offers a helpful reminder that it is good to read blogs before actually criticising them. I do hope that the next Rob Bell book (which I have not read, nor, despite the rumours, critiqued) uses sources somewhat more appropriately than the last one . If so, no-one will be happier than me.

'Your wife is never more beautiful than on your wedding day. It's all downhill from then on.' I can honestly say I have not received such animated and engaged feedback from The Sisterhood since the time I referred to Downton Abbey as a soap opera. And this time I had even more 'death stares.'

'Your wife is never more beautiful than on your wedding day. It's all downhill from then on.' I can honestly say I have not received such animated and engaged feedback from The Sisterhood since the time I referred to Downton Abbey as a soap opera. And this time I had even more 'death stares.'

Francis Beckwith has written an entertaining essay on Richard Dawkins' response to the Pope's resignation. WARNING: contains Roman Catholicism which some of our readers may find offensive. But, frankly, the last line all by itself makes the essay worth the read. A salutary lesson to Britain's...