Joad and Lewis on Natural Evil
About a year and half ago I stumbled across C.S. Lewis’ treatment of the problem of the suffering of animals before the human fall in chapter 9 of his The Problem of Pain, titled “On...
Read moreAbout a year and half ago I stumbled across C.S. Lewis’ treatment of the problem of the suffering of animals before the human fall in chapter 9 of his The Problem of Pain, titled “On...
Read moreI am listening to C.S. Lewis’ God in the Dock this week and last, and I have to say that his essay “Religion without Dogma?” in the first section is fantastic.ย His apologetics at their...
Read moreI’ve finished Robert Letham’s The Holy Trinity (or at least the parts of it I wanted to read), and I have to say its a fantastic book.ย Some thoughts: 1) One of the best things...
Read moreRepenting can be painful.ย Self-deception is always easier than staring the undisguised, unexcused ugliness of your sin in the face, completely owning up to it, genuinely hating it, and actually turning from it.ย But C.S....
Read more“If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did....
Read moreOn the bus back from NYC I read the second essay of J.I. Packer published in In My Place Condemned He Stood, called “What did the Cross Acheive?ย The Logic of Penal Substitution,” originally an...
Read moreMy uncle Walt Harrah writes Christian/worship music, and has a great new album out, based on the book of Isaiah, called Here is Your God.ย You can watch an interview and listen to songs here.
Esther and I spent Labor Day weekend in New York Cit and had a fantastic time.ย We got in early Saturday afternoon and did the common tourist’s first step of going to the top of...
Read moreThis is a provocative statement, but nevertheless a good caution, it seems to me, on the danger of getting so caught up in corporate-narrative-biblical categories that we lose sight of the urgency of Luther’s struggle,...
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