Singer/songwriter and ex-Vigilantes of Love frontman Bill Mallonee will perform at Woodlawnland Presbyterian Church in the University City section of Philadelphia on Friday, December 8, at 8:00 p.m. Admission is just $5. Even though that comes in the middle of our exam weeks, I figure I’ll need a break about then. I’d love to put [...]

After spending most of this evening writing digests of Charles Hodge and Frances Turretin, I was amused by the following from Thomas Sowell on the hubris of academics who write “as if plain English is beneath their dignity and some seem to regard logic as an unconstitutional infringement of their freedom of [...]

Readers of this blog over the past year will know that there is no other music on the planet which has gripped me as deeply or as tenaciously as that of Sufjan Stevens. At the Philly show from his recent “Butterfly Brigade” tour I felt that I was seeing all of the eschatological, already/not yet [...]

It’s probably not through means that first come to your mind, says Mark Horne.

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a LOST post, and with the long hiatus until February we diehard fans need something to tide us over. IGN.COM comes to the rescue with a list of the Top 50 Unsolved Mysteries of LOST. Can you think of any they didn’t cover?

Christianity Today has released their annual list of their critics’ picks for the top twelve Christian music projects of the past year. I’m very pleased to see that two of my friends in the Square Peg Alliance made it in: Andy Osenga’s The Morning at #11 and Derek Webb’s Mockingbird at #7. Good friend of [...]

My latest collection of randomness from my wilderness wanderings across the ‘net. Offerings are thin this time, but thin is good after Thanksgiving, right?:

The IVP New Testament Commentaries are now online at BibleGateway!
Congrats to my friend Daniel Kirk on the publication of part two of his two-part article “The Sufficiency of the Cross: The Law, [...]

My grandson Ethan is now my new favorite theologian.

From Thanksgiving …

After a couple of days of hard discussions about serious matters, ’tis time to lighten up a bit before the day of Thanksgiving. My friend Joel Garver provides the needed refreshment with another delightful dialog with his daughter Claire.

Sang this in church today….needed the reminder:

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

Refrain
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In [...]