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November 2016

November 01, 2016

Reformation Day post–a year and a day late (or 364 days early)

The following is an article that I wrote for Christianity Today online last year, which...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

And he that will reach it, about must, and about must go

The Wartburg, from anyone who knows me is aware, I've been engaged for more than...

October 24, 2016

Al Smith the papist demagogue: the origins of a “democratic institution”

Thomas Nast cartoon, public domain, there is something called the "Al Smith dinner," which is...

October 16, 2016

The ‘Am and the Yam

In my ongoing effort to read through the Bible in Hebrew, I just finished Jeremiah...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

Throne of Blood

My latest Netflix DVD was a movie I'd seen years ago, Throne of Blood--Akira Kurosawa's...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Love the person, hate the sin?

Rebecca Bratten Weiss adds her voice to the many condemning the maxim, "hate the sin,...

August 12, 2016

Intelligent Design, part 2

My friend Jonathan Huddleston (my most reliably acute critic) pointed out that I really didn't...

August 11, 2016

Why Intelligent Design is not (good) theology

One of the most common accusations against Intelligent Design theory is that, while claiming to...

July 2016

July 23, 2016

Is Game of Thrones more Christian than Lord of the Rings?

In a recent Facebook discussion, Rebecca Bratten Weiss (of the excellent "Suspended in Her Jar"...

July 22, 2016

Another blog post at Pickled Pencil

on Donald Trump and the mysticism of money.

July 09, 2016

Is organic food really no better than conventional?

Every so often an article appears informing us all, in a very superior tone, that...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Acton blogs this year

I attended Acton University again this year, and my blogs on the subject (which were...

June 27, 2016

Acton blogs this year

I attended Acton University again this year, and my blogs on the subject (which were...

May 2016

May 08, 2016

Tubers vs. grains

This article argues that societies that ate roots/tubers (potatoes, manioc, yams, etc.) got as many...

May 08, 2016

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp–in which I take the opposite view from Winston Churchill

According to Roger Ebert's review of the 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,...

May 07, 2016

The most basic argument against Protestantism

Dave Armstrong at Patheos Catholic has pointed out that early Protestants "detested divisions" and were...

May 07, 2016

Guarding our neighbor’s pride–yet another response to Morgan Guyton

If I'm not careful this blog will become nothing but a parasite on Morgan's. He...

May 06, 2016

Romans 1, original sin, and identity

One of the key passages in theological debates over homosexuality is Romans 1, in which...

April 2016

April 17, 2016

Review of Morgan Guyton, Part 2

Chapter 7 of How Jesus Saves the World from Us, "Communion, not Correctness," deals with the...

April 12, 2016

Review of Morgan Guyton, How Jesus Saves the World from Us (part 1)

Christianity does not have a good reputation among non-Christians in contemporary America and Western Europe....

March 2016

March 21, 2016

Is the falsifiability of Christian claims a conclusive argument for Christianity?

This article argues that it is, but I think the argument is pretty much bunk....

March 20, 2016

Further thoughts on Isaiah

I have now finished reading through Isaiah in Hebrew (I did this quite a while...

March 12, 2016

Shaped by a Tangle of Stories

I haven't posted for a while because I've been working on articles on the Reformation...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

James Payton, Part 2

Chapter 7 of Payton's Getting the Reformation Wrong focuses on the Anabaptists and other radical groups....

January 23, 2016

Review of James Payton, Getting the Reformation Wrong, part 1

James Payton's 2010 book Getting the Reformation Wrong has a provocative title (one I would love...

January 23, 2016

Letter of Melanchthon to Brenz, May 1531

I translated this letter some years ago for Dave Armstrong, who had cited parts of...

January 20, 2016

Isaiah, chaos, and idolatry (with a concluding peroration about Muslims)

I've been reading through the Bible in Hebrew for many years now, and I'm just...

January 02, 2016

Progressive revelation in the OT: A response to Jonathan Huddleston

Jonathan Huddleston, an old and dear friend of mine who is an OT scholar, has...

January 01, 2016

Why the Incarnation requires us to believe that Muslims worship the true God

So the Internet has been buzzing these past few weeks--my corner of it at least--with...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

In memoriam magistri Latomi dilecti

I first met David Steinmetz in April 1995, more than twenty years ago. I was...