John Stott on the Style of Public Christianity
With the launch of a new initiative at Reformed Theological Seminary entitled The Institute of Theology and Public Life, I am noticing the ways in
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T.S. Eliot Reads the Wasteland
With the affected accent that is a blend of Received Pronunciation English and Boston Brahmins, Eliot reads his monumental poem “The Wasteland” as no one else,
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Creation, Solidarity, and Being Made in God’s Image
I am just now working through Richard Bauckham’s 2011 book Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology, and I am already grateful for
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If God Spoke Would We Understand (Part 2)
What do Seth’s wife, the Nephilim, and the circumcision of Moses’ son have to do with reading and preaching Scripture? Part two of my
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Primo Levi’s Words of Witness
This passage from James Wood’s piece on author and and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi in The New Yorker: This is a classical prose, the possession
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What HBO’s The Leftovers Is About
For everyone watching HBO’s show The Leftovers, which had its season two finale Sunday… Is this currently the best unwatched show on television? I am not
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If God Spoke, Would We Understand?
I have a piece at the Christward Collective looking at the doctrine of perspicuity, the clarity of Scripture. This is the first of
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Paul’s Seminary Epistles
I have a post over at the Acts 29 blog on the body of letters including 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus that
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Norway Then and Now
This series at The Atlantic is just mighty, but I want to draw attention to how little the individual rocks in this picture
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When David Mitchell Was Mugged by a Simile
With his new book Slade House out, author David Mitchell has been getting some attention lately. Mitchell possesses the rare ability to discuss literature in a
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