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I'm sorry to have to announce that, for the time being, I have changed the settings for commenting here at Extra Thoughts to "regis...

Having been raised as a conservative Baptist, I'm surprised that I only just last week ran across the following saying: If we can'...

The Gospel Coalition has kindly asked me to write on this subject, and the post is now up, here . One of the commentators opined that the...

We are often told, sometimes with exasperation, by the critics of Israel that there is a big, big difference between being anti-Israel and ...

In a debate with John Lennox several years ago, in which Lennox emphasizes the historical evidence for Christianity, Richard Dawkins scornfu...

In the next day I hope to put up some Christmas thoughts of my own. After all, this evening is only the beginning of the Christmas season. ...

I almost put this on my Facebook wall but decided it fits here better: It is important to recognize the difference between the way that th...

I was moved to reflect this past Sunday how incredibly fortunate I am to attend a church that uses an older hymnal. My continuing Anglican c...

I recently learned of the existence of this video concerning complementarianism. As I said here, while it is pretty clear that Mary Kassian...

In an earlier post I wrote, concerning Israel, "So my fundamental sense of fair play is moved to note these things and take the side th...

Over at Triablogue I'm having an interesting back-and-forth with Steve Hays, who has proposed that it would be moral for doctors activel...

To my readers at Extra Thoughts, a happy Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving post in full is up at What's Wrong With the World. It incorporat...

Tomorrow or late tonight I will be putting up a Thanksgiving post at What's Wrong With the World, and I will link that from here as well...

My title is deliberately provocative, of course. It was prompted by this silly little list, "12 Signs You Were Definitely Home Schoo...

I have long thought that there is an argument to be made for the Judeo-Christian teaching of the fall of man quite independent of more direc...

What's Wrong With the World has a post up about the ISIS attacks in France, and I would not for a moment want to detract from that. In ...

I have a new post up at What's Wrong With the World. Its theme is why Matt Walsh is a healthy corrective to some bad trends in our Wes...

Writing a book is much the same as any other kind of creative work, painting or carpentry or embroidery or having a baby, an act compounded...

[B]ecause in the realms both of vision and morality he was in the kindergarten, his effort at self-expression was comparable to a child...