Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Church growth books, even with the present crisis Evangelical Christianity finds itself in, are still in good supply. But one from an Episcopalian, whose church's ASA has been dropping the entire decade? That's the idea of retired Bishop of Texas Claude Payne's Reclaiming the Great Commission. Written before much of the excitement in TEC (The …
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N.T. Wright, Anglican scholar and Bishop of Durham, has gained for himself the reputation as a strong "reasserting" scholar, especially with his massive book series Christian Origins and the Question of God. The Resurrection of the Son of God-dealing with the most important point of the debate-is the third book of the series. The Resurrection …
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One of the running "legends" in American life and art (yes, snobs, I know that "American art" is held by the cognoscenti to be an oxymoron) is that of what I'd call the "rube moving to town," or better the big city. He or she leaves the farm or other small places and goes through …
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This book review is a little different than some of the other's I've done lately. Not only is Basic Christianity well known (it was first published in 1958, I read the 50th anniversary edition) but reading it brought up some thoughts and emotions that I'd like to spend time on. But first the book itself: …
J.I. Packer is one of the most eminent writers and theologians in the Anglican world. His claim to fame was sealed by his being defrocked by Michael Ingham, the revisionist Bishop of New Westminster whose sanctioning of same-sex blessings predates the American's ordination of V. Gene Robinson. It's one of those things that, if he …
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I’ve regularly lamented on this blog the failure of the “Religious Right” to “bring America back to God.” It seems that not only has our President proclaimed to the world that we are not a Christian nation, but also the likes of James Dobson has admitted that the whole effort has ended in failure. How …
I find myself frequently have read one book and coming to the realisation that I need to read another. For example, my trudging through St. Thomas Aquinas’s Disputed Questions on Truth and Summa Theologiae convinced me that I needed to read the Bible through from cover to cover, which I forthwith did (and have repeated …
In the summer of 1972, I was making my transition from being an Episcopalian to a Roman Catholic. That transition is commonly referred to today as “swimming the Tiber,” but at the time I was also making another water crossing that, for me, was also very significant: we sold our home in Palm Beach and, …
Many of you who visit this site do so because of the 1960's and 1970's music that's offered either for download or for sale. Before the internet, however, the only way to experience the "Jesus Music" of this era was to dig through second hand shops and garage and estate sales for used vinyl (or …
Rob Bell has become a major voice in "post-modern" Evangelicalism with books such as Velvet Elvis and the NOOMA series of videos. He likes to travel on the edge, and so when he came out with a book entitled Sex God, it's tempting to think that he's gone over it. But before I explore the …
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