Category: Christian Life
Divine Attentiveness and Self Forgetfulness
The first memorial piece for Dr. John Webster comes from Joshua Malone, a former student of his. Upon recollection, two qualities of the man, John Webster, stand out in my mind: a passion for our triune God and a forgetfulness...
Remembering John Webster (1955-2016)
Earlier this week Dr. John Webster, professor of divinity at St. Andrews University, died. For the next few days, we will be publishing pieces by friends, former students, and appreciative readers of Webster explaining what they learned about God from...
“Trials are Precious”
Going to interrupt our Trump coverage for a moment to share this video. On December 8, my dad suffered a traumatic brain injury due to a drug complication to treat some blood clots in his lungs. He had emergency brain...
3 Lessons from “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”
I was planning to read Larry Taunton’s The Faith of Christopher Hitchens before reading Samuel’s review for us. His review made me push it to the top of my “too read” list. And then I got the thing and read it...
Sanctified by Grace Blog Tour: Mortification
The root of Francis and Edith Schaeffer’s ministry at L’Abri was what Dr. Schaeffer came to call “true spirituality.” He was, characteristically enough, well ahead of the curve in his understanding of how young people were coming to think of...
Sanctified by Grace Blog Tour: Election
One of the great problems facing the church today is how to cultivate a unified Christian mind on a corporate level in our churches and on an individual level in the lives of individual Christians. This challenge is, in one...
On Loving and Hating Places
There are a few more things that need to be said as we wrap up this week’s Crump-related fun. (And no, I did not watch last night’s debate so do not ask me about it. I was busy playing Football...
Evangelicals need to read Richard Hooker.
I’m pleased to host this excellent interview between Mere Fidelity contributor Alastair Roberts and my friend Dr. Brad Littlejohn. Dr. Littlejohn, who did his doctoral work at Edinburgh with Mere O favorite Oliver O’Donovan, has just published a popular level...
The Strength of the Hills Is Not Ours–Our Modern Identity Crisis
Tolkien once remarked to me that the feeling about home must have been quite different in the days when the family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps this...
Forgiveness and Our Fundamentalist Technocrats
Over at the Federalist Mollie Hemingway has written about Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk refusing to sign same-sex marriage licenses. Many in the media have noted that Davis has been married four times, which certainly calls into question her understanding...