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2008-06-06T01:31:58-05:00

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Prayer by the book

Last updated on: June 6, 2008 at 1:31 am By Joel J. Miller

“Pray without ceasing.” “The fervent prayers of a righteous man avails much.” In the church where I grew up, I heard these verses a lot. For those who bandied them about they were convenient summaries of their prayer life, or what they wanted it to be. For me they were like slogans for products not for sale in my city. At best prayer was an uneven and elusive discipline. It was often triggered by a crisis: bad traffic, an upcoming... Read more

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Book of Common Prayer

2008-04-28T01:15:38-05:00

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Running fool

Last updated on: April 28, 2008 at 1:15 am By Joel J. Miller

As I sit down gingerly to write this, it’s Sunday, just before noon. Yesterday I ran the half-marathon here in Nashville. What was I thinking? I’m now hobbling like an old man. Every part of my lower body hurts. My knees, hamstrings, and other parts and pieces connected by various ligaments and sinews are all threatening a sit-in — mainly because they can’t manage a walkout any longer. The arch of my right foot has filed for divorce, charging physical... Read more

2008-04-24T03:07:18-05:00

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A source of innovation for publishers

Last updated on: April 24, 2008 at 3:07 am By Joel J. Miller

The division of labor allows specialists to focus on their strengths in the marketplace. The idea is as good and useful today as it was when Adam Smith first talked about it in The Wealth of Nations. But the division of labor can also create other divisions — divisions of assumptions, incentives, communication, and creativity. Sometimes I think that these divisions can do as much damage to a business as the division of labor does it good. Wise minds in... Read more

2008-03-28T01:01:31-06:00

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Authors as entrepreneurs

Last updated on: March 28, 2008 at 1:01 am By Joel J. Miller

Everyone wants to get published. It’s universal. Read this from Justin Martyr’s Second Apology: And we therefore pray you to publish this little book (more…) Read more

2013-02-27T15:59:40-06:00

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God and man at last

Last updated on: February 27, 2013 at 3:59 pm By Joel J. Miller

Rush Limbaugh interviewed Bill Buckley in the mid-nineties for his radio show. I remember listening, but now after more than a decade I recall only one comment. Discussing his faith, Buckley affirmed that, yes, he was a Christian. But that he thought perhaps he wasn’t a very good one. He wasn’t being coy. The thing that struck me was the humility of it. Though his first book addressed the encroachments of atheism in academia, Buckley never shoved his faith in... Read more

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2008-01-19T18:47:42-06:00

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The wealth of (Western) nations

Last updated on: January 19, 2008 at 6:47 pm By Joel J. Miller

“Calvinism is evidently connected with the commercial vocation,” writes Luigi Barzini in The Europeans. “It is not clear to an Italian [like the author], however, whether Calvinists, driven by their stern religious code, become the best merchants, or whether merchants become Calvinists because Calvinism is a superior guide for the successful conduct of business.” It turns out that Barzini’s is an avoidable conundrum. Like the great Italian scribe, I’ve long been influenced by the concept of the Protestant Work Ethic... Read more

2012-12-21T16:35:13-06:00

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To the ends of the earth

Last updated on: December 21, 2012 at 4:35 pm By Joel J. Miller

In The Expansion of Christianity, a slim volume that is part of the IVP Histories series, Timothy Yates tracks the spread of Christianity from the earliest period of the faith through the twentieth century. In his sweep, he hits all the major missionary efforts and players, everyone from Patrick of Ireland to David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer. As a survey, I found the book useful and rewarding, but I also personally found some of the material theologically troubling. I was,... Read more

2014-01-11T21:34:03-06:00

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Jesus, we hardly knew thee?

Last updated on: January 11, 2014 at 9:34 pm By Joel J. Miller

Since the publication of Dan Brown’s spiritual thriller The Da Vinci Code popular buzz about alternative Christianities has been relentless. Otherwise dry bibilical scholars have seen miracles — such as their tombly academic tomes climbing the bestseller lists. That’s what happened to Bart D. Ehrman and his 2005 book Misquoting Jesus, which has sold more than 160,000 copies to date. Ehrman argues that New Testament documents are error-ridden to the point of unreliability and that one early Christian sect squashed competing sects who proffered alternate perspectives on Jesus and the... Read more

2007-06-20T05:51:34-05:00

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Adam Smith for dummies

Last updated on: June 20, 2007 at 5:51 am By Joel J. Miller

Despite their obvious differences, Das Kapital and The Wealth of Nations share at least one similarity: Nobody reads them. In the case of Karl Marx, this is no tragedy. Thanks to the colorful antics of history (many of them sticky and sanguinary), anyone can see that the bewhiskered dreamer was full of crap. Not so with Adam Smith, whose tome revealed profundities from which anyone would profit — that is, unless you count the cost of actually digesting The Wealth of... Read more

2013-06-06T08:32:03-05:00

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Miles from the truth

Last updated on: June 6, 2013 at 8:32 am By Joel J. Miller

In 1995 author Jack Miles touched off a theological tempest in a teapot with his publication of God: A Biography, in which he attempts to tell the story of God by reading the Hebrew Scriptures as “imaginative literature.” With the 2001 publication of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, Miles uses the same approach to explore the life and significance of Jesus, and the tempest is again brewing. The result of the Pulitzer-winning God was a radical revisionist... Read more

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