Given Tolkien’s current fame, and the obvious quality of his work, I find this statement amazing, and very telling about the power of encouragement: “I have never had much confidence in my own work, and...
Esther and I have some friends down at Southwestern Theological Seminary who have a great blog which discusses the meaning of biblical femininity.ย If you haven’t seen it, check it out here.
As you can see, I’ve updated from Blogger to WordPress.ย I like the formatting better, and they have more features. What is new? 1) the blog’s name (you can read about why in the “what...
Many people in our society believe that all books which affirm intelligent design should be disallowed from biology classrooms in public schools. Should we therefore ban Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species? Whatever later changes...
How would you answer this question – what does justification by faith alone have to do with idolatry? My brother Dane has a great post in which he shows how they have everything to do...
Tolkien says he dislikes allegory, and his Christian faith is less apparent in The Lord of the Rings than Lewis’ is in The Chronicles of Narnia. Sometimes you hear people say that its basically a...
Here is a brief synopsis of why I think the Framework interpretation of Genesis 1 is superior to other varieties of old-earth creationism which read the days as temporally sequential: 1) Seeing the days as...
Okay, another quick post on That Hideous Strength. Walter Savage Landor once wrote, after quoting two lines from Milton’s Paradise Lost, “I would rather have written these two lines than all the poetry that as...
