Extra Thoughts

If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to watch David Wood's video about his conversion. This post will be a bit of a spoiler if you h...

The Bible is not afraid of simple metaphors and images. In fact, the Bible is all about simple metaphors and images: The Father, the Son, th...

Every year since 2001 my family has organized a Christmas caroling potluck at our house. Mostly attended by home schooling families (some qu...

From time to time I get drawn into a looong discussion of education with someone or other who just cannot fathom why I'm so against send...

My latest blog posts have been put up at What's Wrong With the World instead of here. I did start one here at Extra Thoughts on the subj...

Someone on Facebook linked to this article and set off a firestorm of controversy, which firestorm chiefly arose because I disagreed with th...

If you are interested in my work on apologetics and the historical reliability of the gospels, you will want to read, and hopefully comment ...

At the very end of Perelandra , when Ransom is about to return to earth and is saying goodbye to Tor and Tinidril, Tor and Tinidril ask Rans...

The world is a discouraging place. Herewith, for encouragement, a quotation from Lizette Woodworth Reese: Oh, unforgotten things, Gone ou...

The meltdown of Christian stances in the moral fields is happening with head-spinning speed. This post is from a professor at Baylor Univers...

I've been thinking lately about witch hunts at Christian colleges. I've had contact with several very conservative colleges in my ti...

Her beauty, with her face a little flushed and her hair ruffled, took him freshly by surprise. This shock of surprise was in all real bea...

It's been a looong time since I did a hymn post. Yesterday I learned of a new hymn. It's "O Christ Our Hope, Our Heart's De...

The world needs more Horae Paulinae . What's that, you may ask? I'm glad you asked. The Horae Paulinae is a work by the great Willi...

So as not to waste the research I just engaged in to find all of these Thai commercials, I'm going to put them in a post. There is thi...