Ithilien

The most thorough and widely touted refutation of Love Wins is a lengthy review by Kevin DeYoung, a pastor in East Lansing. I applaud Pas...

Here's a review of Rob Bell's Love Wins . First of all, I had never read any of Bell's books before this. I have never been a f...

The evangelical world seems to be in a tizzy about a book that almost no one has yet read. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. That's ...

A year or two ago, on my friend Chris Armstrong's blog ( Grateful to the Dead ), I got in an argument about whether there was such a thi...

Yet again I return to this blog after a very long absence (the longest yet). I hope to post regularly, but we'll see what happens. At an...

You’re St. Justin Martyr! You have a positive and hopeful attitude toward the world. You think that nature, history, and even the pagan phil...

It seriously puzzles me. OK, he's no doubt a competent administrator. But who cares how competent he is if he's sold his soul? Romne...

The war was stupid and wrong from the start. We (Americans, British, etc.) went into it on false pretences, and we have almost certainly don...

After 1500 years, Origen gets a break. Pope Benedict dedicated his Wednesday audience to him, saying in part: I invite you to welcome the te...

As the crisis in the Episcopal Church appears to be nearing a climax (but haven't we been saying this for years now?), one hears more an...

Since every other Anglican blog has naturally been holding forth for the past few weeks about the Primates' meeting in Tanzania, and sin...

The two great parties in human affairs are only the party which sees life black against white, and the party which sees it white against bla...

The catchphrase on the Left these days (and among many who see themselves as moderate) is "theocracy." Allegedly, conservative Chr...

I particularly like the point that the invasion of Iraq went astray in part because of its exclusively secular approach. A lot of people mis...

This report by the Council on Foreign Relations was published in the New York Times. It's a relatively fair account of American evangeli...

Christianity Today reports that evangelical leaders including Franklin Graham and Rick Warren are criticizing the Bush administration's...

I have recently gotten a job at a college in Indiana (Huntington University), and the past few months have been largely taken up with gettin...

Here I go again after another of my long lapses. I'm not going to become king of the blogosphere at this rate, but that's OK. An onl...

In my last post I referred briefly to the medieval courtly romance "Erec et Enide," which I read this past year. I had intended to...

A more interesting critique of Narnia than Toynbee's (not focused on the movie, BTW) is the article "Prisoner of Narnia" by Ad...