Category: Blog
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Lyra Fidelium
Samuel J. Stone (1839-1900) was an Anglican clergyman and poet whose claim to fame is that he wrote the hymn, The Church’s One Foundation. But that’s just the hit single off a great album. That hymn is from an interesting collection that Stone wrote in 1866 entitled Lyra Fidelium: Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles…
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On Remembering Facebook Friends
Just the other night I was doing something that all middle-aged university professors do on a regular basis — maintaining my Facebook! Yes, I have a presence on Facebook and, yes, on occasion I visit the site to see what all of my “friends” are doing. I originally created my Facebook presence simply because my…
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The Election in Classical Context: Victor Davis Hanson at Biola
Here is audio from Victor Davis Hanson’s recent speech at Biola. Following the news day by day can kind of beat up your mind, especially right now with the election, the war, and the financial crisis. These are all big stories that don’t fit daily updates very well. Every now and then it’s nice to…
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Craig Hazen Reviews Religulous
Craig Hazen, the director of Biola University’s graduate program in Christian apologetics, has written an insightful review of the Bill Maher movie Religulous. It’s a documentary I won’t be seeing, not because I’m afraid to face criticism of what I believe, but because I’ve already seen more than enough of Bill Maher’s comedy. His style…
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Victor Davis Hanson at Biola: Thucydides
Victor Davis Hanson spoke twice at Biola University on October 8. His afternoon lecture was on one of his specialties, the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Reading Thucydides has been a standard assignment for students in the Torrey Honors Institute for a long time. But it’s a rare student who feels love at…
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Pursuing a World of Dreams
Daily, I see people pursuing things they believe will make them happy. They live lives where one must be sleep deprived to the point of exhaustion to really be taking advantage of all that this life has to offer. They are always looking for the newest thing-be it the newest movie, TV show or iPhone.…
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Three Birds, No Perspective
Phoebe Age Six has drawn three birds flying. She depicts each bird with a severe simplicity: Four ovals, two lines, and dot. The first bird gets a bit of special treatment: the two lines of his beak are expanded to be flattened ovals themselves. Each bird has its own minor distinctions, and the rapid loops…
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A New Type of Christianity is Coming, is Here
Something new is coming, or perhaps is already here. It’s a new type of Christianity. It is still taking shape all around us, so it’s hard to describe. Labels won’t be any help. But one thing’s for sure. It Is The Future. Everything changes, and everything has to be left wide open to new developments.…
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Let Us Now Praise Study Bibles
The ESV Study Bible is soon to be released, and from the plentiful pre-release materials that I’ve seen online, this promises to be a great resource. The editors seem to have crammed a lot of helpful things into a single volume, including background info, maps where you need them, and essays that I wouldn’t normally…
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Lost Dogs at the End of the Road
My favorite band, The Lost Dogs, just finished up a Route 66 road trip with a beach party concert in Santa Monica. It may not quite count as The American Dream, but winding from Chicago to L.A. on what is now the nostalgic back road of the nation is pretty cool. The Lost Dogs did…
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Worship as Gift
I was recently directed towards Andrew Jones’ blog entitled “A Gift Economy,” where the author was reflecting on Christian worship and the concept of gift. Jones’ main contention is that much Christian worship is passive, in that most worshippers are expected to receive during the worship time as opposed to giving something of themselves. I…