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August 2006

August 02, 2006

The Case for Liberal Evangelicals 5

Environmentalism? Where do you stand? Are you green, dark green, light green, or something else?...

August 01, 2006

Heretic’s Guide to Eternity 2

Spencer Burke's A Heretic's Guide to Eternity is divided into 3 major sections. The second...

July 2006

July 31, 2006

The Case for Liberal Evangelicals 4

Evolution or intelligent design, science or faith? Those are the questions that shape chp 4...

July 31, 2006

The Case for Liberal Evangelicals 4

Evolution or intelligent design, science or faith? Those are the questions that shape chp 4...

July 28, 2006

Friday is for Friends 4

Epstein suggests in the second half of his sixth chapter on Friendship: An Expose, eight...

July 28, 2006

The Case for Liberal Evangelicals 3

In a delicious irony, I was finishing up Balmer's 3d chapter on education and democracy...

July 27, 2006

Heretic’s Guide to Eternity 1

A while back I posted on our brief visit with Spencer Burke, creator of TheOoze.com....

July 26, 2006

The Case for Liberal Evangelicals 2

Randall Balmer's book, Thy Kingdom Come, turns in chp 2 to ask this question: "Where...

July 25, 2006

Jesus Mean and Wild

Last night I discussed on Extension 720 Mark Galli's bood, Jesus Mean and Wild. I'm...

July 24, 2006

The Case for Liberal Evangelicals 1

Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America, An Evangelical's...

July 21, 2006

Friday is for Friends 3

Joseph Epstein's Friendship: An Expose asks in chp 5 an important question that we often...

July 21, 2006

Is the Reformation over? 5

Just in case you haven't heard of it, in the early 1990s Richard John Neuhaus...

July 20, 2006

Is the Reformation over? 4

Where do you find Roman Catholic theology? Now, before we go too far, let me...

July 19, 2006

Is the Reformation over? 3

Here’s the question I propose to you regarding Noll and Nystrom’s book, Is the Reformation...

July 18, 2006

Is the Reformation over? 2

Noll and Nystrom, in their Is the Reformation Over?, chp 3, see the shifts that...

July 14, 2006

Friday is for Friends 2

Joseph Epstein's Friendship: An Expose turns in chps 3 and 4 to two more topics:...

July 13, 2006

Jesus at Harvard

In 1912 George Santayana taught a course at Harvard on Jesus, but no one taught...

July 07, 2006

Friday is for Friends 1

Joseph Epstein, plain and simple, is my favorite writer. In one calendar year I read...

July 05, 2006

Was Jesus “mean and wild”?

Mark Galli, editor at Christianity Today, thinks so. His new book, Jesus Mean and Wild:...

July 02, 2006

Announcement: Friday is for Friends

Starting July 7th, Friday, I'll begin a series on my favorite, one-of-a-kind, drop-all-your-other-books-to-read, author, Joseph...

June 2006

June 30, 2006

How to Read the Bible 5 Horton responds

We come now to our last post on Michael Horton's book on covenant theology, God...

June 29, 2006

How to Read the Bible 4

Michael Horton, in God of Promise, provides what is surely the most recent and complete...

June 28, 2006

How to Read the Bible 3

Michael Horton's God of Promise, chps. 3-4, puts the big blocks of his thesis in...

June 27, 2006

How to Read the Bible 2

How do we read the Bible? In Michael Horton's eyes, we read it "covenantally" for...

June 26, 2006

How to Read the Bible 1

At some point in many of our conversations someone steps up to the plate and...

June 23, 2006

Least Known, Best Emerging Book

This convoluted title to my post today means that I've found a book that no...

June 22, 2006

Lord’s Prayer as Pattern Prayer

Andii Bowsher has recently written a book that might be of some use to you,...

June 21, 2006

Holyghost

In Jason Boyett's Pocket Guide to the Bible: A Little Book about the Big Book...

June 20, 2006

A Book to Brighten Every Day

If I were you, and I'm assuming you have days when you're a bit down,...

June 20, 2006

A Book to Brighten Every Day

If I were you, and I'm assuming you have days when you're a bit down,...