Beirut (Creator/songwriter Zach Condon & band) is a marvelous fusion of indie/pop sensibilities with European folk traditions. Condon’s first album, 2006’s Gulag Orkestar, was heavily influence by Balkan and gypsy traditions. I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Eastern European folk music even since I spent a summer in Hungary. Condon and [...]

Author: Brian S. Rosner
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN: 9780802833747
214 pages, paperback.
Several years ago I lived near a medium-sized city that was scheduled to get a new shopping mall. The area already had two or three of the typical 1980s shoe box malls, but the new one was supposed to be as high above them as they were over [...]

After any exam period, I usually like to take what I call a blow-off night, a night totally free from any seminary-related activities or studies. Even though I only had one midterm exam this semester, I decided why waste the tradition? So tonight my daughter Hannah and I finally went to see Amazing Grace.
A comedy [...]

The following is a guest post by WTS classmate Stephen Young. His views are his own, but I am happy to provide this forum for his review of Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry by the faculty of Westminster Seminary, California.
This book breaks down into fourteen chapters plus an appendix of sorts. I have included [...]

From time to time my friends and I engage in genial debate over what constitutes “Christian” art…or whether there can even be such a thing. At the extremes of views on what Christian art looks like would be, on one end, the kind of kitschy paintings and figurines one sees in a typical Christian book [...]

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 [...]

My review of Vern Poythress’s new book Redeeming Science is now posted at the Westminster Bookstore Review site.

A recent news article reported on some of the main themes in Mark Noll’s latest book, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. Among his conclusions Noll argues that the Civil War irreperably undermined the Bible as the chief moral authority for the United States. Up until the war, he says, most Americans assumed that [...]

Anyone close to me over the past year can tell you that I have put the fanatical back into fan with my undying obsession with the music of Sufjan Stevens. Last month my daughter Hannah poured gasoline on that fire by announcing that she was gifting Karyn and me with tickets to see The Man [...]

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 [...]