So, a big loss for GLAAD, and the larger debate about freedom of speech concerning homosexuality goes on. Fox Sports executives are scheduled to give depositions next month about why they fired college football analyst Craig James in September because while running for the U.S. Senate in 2012 he had opposed same sex marriage.   The gay... Continue Reading

Rick Warren somehow finds a different understanding: “But Daniel knew this wouldn’t be a healthy diet, so he asked that he and three of his friends be allowed to eat healthier…. [H]e understood God wanted him to live a healthy lifestyle so he could serve God no matter where he was located.” Warren’s reading of... Continue Reading

Nagel believes that we should accept the failure of our contemporary scientific account of the world in order to make way for a revolution. Humanity has made great progress by excluding the mind from the material world, but the time has come to accept the facts: we need to have a new account with mind... Continue Reading

In “The Message of Daniel,” the author essentially follows the book of Daniel, from chapter one straight through to chapter twelve. He doesn’t work it out like a normal commentary, verse by verse, with tons of Hebrew/Aramaic syntactical-grammatical verbosity cluttering up the page. Instead, the material genuinely lends itself to serious devotional reading, as well... Continue Reading

James Hamilton writes this little volume, What Is Biblical Theology?, so that when you stare death in the face you will stand with Paul and declare, “My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better!”   James M. Hamilton Jr. What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible’s Story, Symbolism, and... Continue Reading

Can’t we make distinctions anymore between someone who wants to beat up homosexuals and someone who (1) affirms what the Bible says, (2) recognizes that gays are also made after God’s image, and (3) notes that all of us, without exception, are sinners? Must we all applaud propaganda? Can’t we oppose bullying attempts from both... Continue Reading

Having undergone redemptive-historical modification, the law very much has a home in the New Covenant. The law continues to provide the moral standard that binds all people, not just Christians. It is this understanding of the law that helps us to grasp what the prophet meant when he looked to the day when God would... Continue Reading

Hollingworth takes us back to the pre-Socratic philosophers of ancient Greece and the beginning of classical civilization. We cannot understand how Augustine was trained to think unless we master the origins of Platonism, and that means returning to the world Plato addressed and transformed. To say this isn’t to argue Augustine was a Platonist, but... Continue Reading

Whereas classical music embodies order, law, structure, and beauty, punk rock embodies–not the world as it should be–but the world as it is. Also, punk music has a social awareness that would put Beethoven and his ministry to the deaf to shame.   Punk rock music is the true Christian art form. I know it’s hard to... Continue Reading

As the old Italian proverb goes, “Translation is treason.” The treasonous nature of all translation work consists in the inability to accurately convey the nuance of meaning when moving from the original text to the receptor language. While the translator may be able to convey the bulk of meaning found within a text, he will unlikely communicate... Continue Reading