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A couple of developments for watchers of the Baptist and evangelical scene, with regard to the topic that one can't seem to stop talking...

In these few days between the issuance of SCOTUS's postmodern decision on Obamacare, of which Antonin Scalia has said that it shows that...

It's been a looong time since I've written a hymn post. I've been thinking lately of the beautiful but forgotten hymn "The ...

I'm working on a hymn post, but while doing so I ran across this wonderful quotation from Colin Hemer in his discussion of the "we...

I have written a number of posts about those I call the CHIs--Christian Homosexual Identifiers. These are people like Eve Tushnet and other...

A fundamentalist radio station I listen to has been featuring readings lately from Elisabeth Elliot's Shadow of the Almighty: The Life ...

The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Proverbs 21:1 Some years a...

This is hot off the presses, folks, just discovered late last night. I found it while reading Paley's Horae Paulinae and comparing some ...

Those who read my apologetics work know my fondness for the so-old-it's-new argument from undesigned coincidences. I'm feeling too l...

Years ago I published this short post on "evidential ammunition" for Christian apologetics. In the course of it I had a long quot...

We had some friends over the other evening, and the issue of petitionary prayer came up. Here was one set of questions on the table (in my p...

We were driving home from church today and passed a greenhouse with a Christian Easter message on its board: "Because He lives, I can f...

I recently learned that Bill Luse at Apologia has been asked to take down his excerpts from Whittaker Chambers Witness.  Chambers's gran...

It is Easter Sunday. Our world is growing ever worse. In the Middle East, the most merciless of enemies kills our fellow Christians in unspe...

I have recently been reading two books, both of which I highly recommend. The two are Colin Hemer's The Book of Acts in the Setting of ...