Escapism

I can’t help but notice it here, notice it there, notice it everywhere.  A few days ago, I read Steve Hayward, on Powerline , asking, ” So When Can We Expect Obama’s Malaise Speech? “  This does feel familiar, a sense of dread, a hopelessness.  Well, in the . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Noll’s Elephants

The Pentecostal theologian Dale Coulter continues his analysis of the intellectual, and anti-intellectual, heritage of American Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, described in Mark Noll Got It Wrong, Maybe . He is not happy with Mark Noll’s take on these things, which he argues wrongly . . . . Continue Reading »

Born Again Churches

From evangelical megachurch to Catholic cathedral, Timothy George traces the history of the Crystal Cathedral in today’s On the Square : This amazing structure, designed by famed architect Philip Johnson, boasted 10,661 silver-tinted windows supported by a filigree of steel. The windows . . . . Continue Reading »

Looking for the End: A Syrian Armageddon?

Earlier this month LifeWay Research, an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, polled Americans regarding the connection between current events in Syria and the prophecies of the Bible. I find the results a little surprising. Thirty-two percent of those polled agree with the statement, “I . . . . Continue Reading »

A Non-Political Pope?

You can’t tell too much from one interview, of course, but the  interview Pope Francis gave an Italian Jesuit journal last month , and which was released last week, seems like a blockbuster. Everyone understands this. Progressive Catholics are elated. After long years in the wilderness, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.23.13

Cancer and Divine Transcendence Michael W. Hannon, Fare Forward The Fraying of Russia’s Church-State Alliance Nadieszda Kizenko, Foreign Affairs Revise Us Again Steve Thorngate, Christian Century An Anabaptist-Reformed Dialogue. Pt. II Richard Mouw & James K.A. Smith, Comment Illusions of . . . . Continue Reading »