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October 2016

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...

March 2016

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...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Patheos blog on Pope Francis

I was invited to participate in a panel of responses to Pope Francis' upcoming visit...

September 03, 2015

Acton blog series

This summer, I wrote a series of blogs on my experiences at the "Acton Institute"...

June 2013

June 03, 2013

Christus Victor

As I was writing about the Rob Bell controversy a couple of years ago, it...

March 2011

March 18, 2011

Response to Kevin DeYoung, Part 1

The most thorough and widely touted refutation of Love Wins is a lengthy review by...

March 15, 2011

OK–now that I’ve actually read the book. . . .

Here's a review of Rob Bell's Love Wins. First of all, I had never read...

March 12, 2011

George MacDonald, Rob Bell, and standards of orthodoxy

The evangelical world seems to be in a tizzy about a book that almost no...

July 2010

July 27, 2010

What I believe about the Church–a muddled manifesto

A year or two ago, on my friend Chris Armstrong's blog (Grateful to the Dead),...

March 2010

March 15, 2010

Religion and art–followup to a Facebook discussion

Yet again I return to this blog after a very long absence (the longest yet)....

January 2008

January 22, 2008

Which Church Father are you?

You’re St. Justin Martyr!You have a positive and hopeful attitude toward the world. You think...

January 18, 2008

Why does anyone vote for Romney?

It seriously puzzles me. OK, he's no doubt a competent administrator. But who cares how...

May 2007

May 05, 2007

Bush was right to veto the Iraq withdrawal bill

The war was stupid and wrong from the start. We (Americans, British, etc.) went into...

April 2007

April 25, 2007

Pope Benedict praises Origen

After 1500 years, Origen gets a break. Pope Benedict dedicated his Wednesday audience to him,...

April 01, 2007

What is Anglicanism?

As the crisis in the Episcopal Church appears to be nearing a climax (but haven't...

February 2007

February 25, 2007

Thoughts on Tanzania

Since every other Anglican blog has naturally been holding forth for the past few weeks...

February 24, 2007

Lenten message from G. K. Chesterton

The two great parties in human affairs are only the party which sees life black...

October 2006

October 17, 2006

The real problem with the “Christian Right”

The catchphrase on the Left these days (and among many who see themselves as moderate)...

October 10, 2006

A better article on the same subject

I particularly like the point that the invasion of Iraq went astray in part because...

October 08, 2006

Interesting article on American Christianity

This report by the Council on Foreign Relations was published in the New York Times....

August 2006

August 08, 2006

Evangelicals against Bush

Christianity Today reports that evangelical leaders including Franklin Graham and Rick Warren are criticizing the...