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"Monotheistic religions that lay claim to the one and only possible truth are doomed by their very nature to end up in conflict. The only way out is to free ourselves from these ancient divisive creeds and thus extinguish their fires of righteousness" (Carolyn D. Lewis, Ocean View, Delaware, in a...

Frank James is a good friend from my Oxford days and I grieve for the loss he has suffered. Lisa's family lost a beloved husband, father, brother, and son in a climbing accident a couple of years ago, so we know something of what they are going through right now. A video of Frank's statement to the...

I took my family today to see The Nativity Story . It is a tremendous movie. It is not only reverent but extremely moving. The script if faithful to the Bible, though with the usual artistic liberties (such as the three magi arriving the night of the birth and the Magnificat being sung by Mary as...

Paul Helm now has a blog ( Helm's Deep: Philosophical Theology ), upon which he has been posting a number of his recent papers. He has posted Warfield on Divine Passion and Anthropomorphism Protestant Style . Forthcoming are "The Calvinist Concept of God," "Three Replies: to Roger Olson, John...

The latest edition of Harper's Magazine has an article by Jeff Sharlet on how the Christian right is reimagining US history. R J Rushdoony gets quite a few column inches but Sharlet misses the worst aspect of this man's history: Holocaust Denial.

"The more I go to church, and the more I turn myself over the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now." Can you guess the source of this quotation?

Coming back to London, the minister stopped outside Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at a naval chaplain’s convention. And when his three days of revving these naval chaplains up—over a thousand of them, in Suwanee—the chaplain general took him out for a meal. And he said, “How did you become a Christian...

Our own Derek Thomas and Dr. Paul Jones (an Alliance Council member who serves organist and music director at Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church) have collaborated on a new Christmas carol. The full text and music will be posted soon, but here is the opening stanza: Not in regal robes of...

My comments on the late RJR have stimulated some feedback.

In an article entitled "An Atheist Can Believe in Christmas," Randy Kennedy asks how some prominent atheists are (or are not) celebrating the holidays. It turns out that Sam Harris ( Letter to a Christian Nation ) has a Christmas tree up at his house, albeit a small one -- "a tree that even an...