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 [...]

…if it were transporting me out of Evangelical “culture.” The Apocalypse is now a “game,” kids.
The most insightful part of this review is where the writer stumbles upon the fact that the whole Left Behind concept has more in common with paganism than Christianity:
…as I clicked away on my spirit warriors, and the glowing balls [...]

Real Live Preacher says the slippery slope argument slips on the soap. Actually, he didn’t say it in those exact words, I did; and I’m pretty proud of it! (Oops, pride is a slippery slope down to…)
His post will make you armed and dangerous the next time someone tells you that Inspiration and Incarnation [...]

Doug Wilson perfectly nailed a pet peeve my wife and I have had for some time now with the way evangelicals take communion:
The Lord’s Table is the place where we are to overflow with gratitude and thanksgiving. It is not a time for us to curl up into a little ball of sorrow or remorse. [...]

UPDATE: The problem for IE users referred to in this post has now been fixed by my installation of a new template. I leave the post as is, however, just because it gives me an excuse to have the PC vs. Mac guys’ picture on my site. - the Foolish Sage
My apologies that apparently Sacred [...]

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Cartoon by Tom Tomorrow from workingforchange.com

The other day I was sorting through some photographs on my computer when I ran across a U.S. Marines official portrait of Brad. Brad was a student in my first sixth grade class at the Christian school in Charlottesville, VA, where I taught for ten years. Two years ago he was killed by a sniper [...]

File this under “Wish I’d Said That.”
Nicholas Perrin’s review of Guy Waters’ book Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul is now online at the N. T. Wright Page. (HT: Alastair, review originally published in the Westminster Theological Journal, 2005, 67, 381-390.)
The opening paragraphs of the review are quoteworthy:
A story is told of an American [...]

Looking at the Schofield KJV Reference Bible I had in high school (complete with my own hand-drawn “Chronology of the End Times” chart inside the back cover), I realized how easily drawn I have been over the years to various schemes for reading the Bible. The catch always is if you don’t have the scheme, [...]

My friend Xavier Picket, co-founder of Reformed Blacks of America, has written a provocative post worth reading and considering: The Reformed “Faith”: Misleading Terminology? He asks whether it might be needlessly offensive to refer to our Reformed distinctives as our “faith,” thereby appearing to elevate it to the status of a religion of its own, [...]