Identity, Then and Now
Dr. Carl Trueman has developed a reputation as a church historian, and staunch defender of confessional Christianity, an ordinary working churchman, and a
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anthropology
Christian Remembering
I have a new post over at Ligonier’s Tabletalk magazine on the topic of Christian remembering. Memory of the past—whether corporate or individual—can wield
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How is God Our Father
In this video from Third Millennium Ministries, I talk about how God is a covenantal, royal father, and how this sort of fatherhood
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To Christians Who Celebrated the Supreme Court Decision But Remain Mum on Planned Parenthood Videos
Over at the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission site, I have a open letter to a certain group of evangelicals whose somewhat odd social media presence
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The Nature of Brooding
Coleridge said something along the lines of how sentimentality is false emotion, the human longing for a lie. If this is true, then agrarian
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Resisting a Spirit of Lethargy
There is a story about the basketball coach who meets his star player off the court after a particularly poor game. “Son, are you ignorant or
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The Work-Rest Balance
There is a lot of talk about the work-life balance and whether that balance is even possible. Work, after all, is a part of
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Christian Enslavement
Recent reports of Christians (and other groups) being forced into slavery in Iraq and Nigeria raise terrible questions about how Christian individuals and communities forced
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Twitter and “intimacy gradients”
As someone who was an extremely late adopter of Twitter (I curiously stumbled in as many were discussing their escape plans), I am
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Why Can’t We See Our Own Typos
File under the category of familiarity-blindness: every writer knows that self-editing can be an exercise in frustration. This article in Wired by Nick Stockton
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