Sarah Palin, Maureen Dowd, and the Reality of Evangelical Paradox
Maureen Dowd has a fun if slightly snarky column on a recent visit to Wasilla, AK, Sarah Palin’s hometown. Dowd opens her piece with a comment by Carly Fiorina, the female former CEO of...
View ArticleSpider Webs of Our Own Making: Pride and the Christian Life
A little while back I blogged about Stephen Altrogge’s book on sports. I recommended it to my readers and noted as I did so some illumination it brought me about the condition of my heart. In...
View ArticleShooting Sacred Evangelical Cows: First Up, Incarnational Ministry and...
I’ve recently had a number of evangelical buzzwords come to mind, and have pondered them a little bit to see whether they really represent worthy ideas. After some examination, it seems that many of...
View ArticleShould We Pray for Tiger Woods?
Nowadays, husbands have countless reminders of the costs of infidelity. On a regular, almost weekly, basis, we hear of another public figure who has cheated on his wife. We see the news reports and...
View ArticleThe New Yorker on Jesus Christ: Messiah as “Dharma Bum” and Crucified...
Adam Gopnik, writer of renown at The New Yorker, has just penned one of the more engrossing cultural pieces on the person and mystery of Jesus Christ that I personally have seen in a good long while....
View ArticleKevin DeYoung Speaks Wisely About Celebrity Pastors
Kevin DeYoung has just posted a manifestly helpful piece on the hot-potato topic of “celebrity pastors.” I commend it to you; it’s full of wisdom and good theological thinking. Here’s a snatch: Give...
View ArticleWhy You Should Trust the Apostle Paul Over Precocious Millennials
My brother-at-arms Andrew Walker and I just wrote a piece entitled, puckishly, “Why the Church Is Wrong” for First Thoughts of First Things. It’s on the revisionist hermeneutic and hubris of Matthew...
View ArticleOn Writing Your Own Name in the History Books
I just published a short essay with First Things on the supposed heroism of “affirming pastors.” It’s a piece that builds on some of my earlier work in tracing how we’re constantly being told by people...
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