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Last week, I posted a few reflections on how Christians should respond when they experience horrendous evils. My interlocutor replied with this additional concern: "I have to admit...I
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Today we celebrate the beginning of the Lenten season. Ash Wednesday, the most penitential day of the year, ushers in the "bright sadness" (to use Alexander Schmemann'
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From time to time, I will get an email with questions about how to live the Christian life. While I am not a pastor, former students or sometime readers of
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I am grateful to Gary Hartenburg for his detailed and thorough response to my article. My hope in writing the article was not to offer a final verdict, but another perspective in what is already a long conversation about the […]
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Gary Hartenburg, a good friend and a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, penned the following response to my recent piece on the young evangelicalism. With his permission, I'm
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All people by nature desire knowledge. The vehicles by which people endeavor to know things are basically two: the senses or the mind. The objects which people endeavor to know
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First, this: It is within the marriage covenant that our hearts deepest desires find their rest and peace: "At last," says Adam, and when we reach that state,
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"Our culture does not suffer from the overabundance of leisure but, rather, its scarcity." Thus begins Mathew Anger's nice review of Joseph Pieper's modern
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In case you missed it, Church Relevance released their list of the top 60 Christian blogs. Mere-O did not make the list (alas), but friends Justin Taylor, Joe Carter,
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According to John Calvin, the knowledge of God "is that by which we not only conceive that there is a God but also grasp what befits us and is
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It's hard to disagree with Carl Trueman on this point: Second, I am also struck by how Christian talk of cultural engagement has coincided with a watering-down
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This past week, The City published my article, "The New Evangelical Scandal," which they had graciously allowed me to write. The piece has prompted a number of responses,