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2017 and the Recalibration of the Expert
A cartoon in the New Yorker, showing a man in a plane with his arm raised: “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly... Read more -
Happy Christmas: Sunday is Coming!
Normally we would not re-post on Think, but sometimes exceptions can be permitted. I haven't been on social media much the past couple of weeks, but have picked up that... Read more -
Incarnation Through Middle-Eastern Eyes
Our perspectives of Christmas are hugely shaped by cultural assumptions. For those of us in the West, our traditions are largely a very recent creation, only a century... Read more -
A Christmas Prayer
The Christmas edition of The Spectator has a feature on answered prayer, or rather, as the piece is titled, ‘Have you ever had a prayer answered?’ Read more -
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Submission
The other week I did a Q&A at the Christian Union at my daughters’ school. All the normal questions came up: Is there freewill? What about suffering? How about... Read more -
Teaching and the Local Church
Of all the books in the New Testament, 1 Timothy perhaps gives us the fullest picture of what local church leadership is meant to look like. Yes, it was written to... Read more -
Gay Cakes & the Unkindness of the New Totalitarianism
In the year 250 an edict was issued that everyone throughout the Empire was required to sacrifice to the Roman gods and the well-being of the Emperor Decius. These... Read more -
Understanding and Wonder
Naomi Wolf ends her classic denunciation of porn with an encounter with, “A boy with tousled hair and Bambi eyes” at Northwestern University. Read more -
21st Century Circumcision
The news that Miroslav Volf has been overtaken by a bad case of moral relativism is sad, but perhaps not surprising: we live in an age when such things pass by all too... Read more - Page ‹ First < 24 25 26 27 28 > Last ›