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THE FINAL RECKONING   ‘I reckon you’re right,’  I said. ‘I reckon you righteous’ he replied. My right standing reckoned The eschaton beckoned Where all things materialize.   ‘I hope against hope,’  I said. ‘Who hopes for now?’  he replied. The hopes and fears Of so many years, In thee, can’t  be denied.   ‘Your…

Listen to the lyrics of this song, then get out and vote!

    (This is taken from an interview done with N.T. Wright in October during the Duke Convocation). ” I’m very interested in what a Christian vision of wise government might be. There are insights we can bring to bear.  It’s difficult to think outside the box of Western democracy in order to evaluate it.…

I must admit to getting pretty mushy about baseball, especially at this time of year.  I remember as if it were yesterday when my Dad would take me to see the Greensboro Yankees in the 50s and 60s, and I brought my glove and caught a foul ball. I remember watching Mel Stottlemyre and Tommy…

                   Pain is an odd thing.  I once took a philosophy course at Carolina where we noted its oddity, and then discussed it to death until I was disgusted.  The main point Professor E. Maynard Adams was making was that pain, like love, is not a tangible visible thing, but it sure is…

How true it is! I wonder what that says about all those psalms of lament in the Psalter? Just asking 🙂 I have to say, Steve Martin is my kind of atheist. And he sings o.k. too, with the Canyon Rangers at good ole Merle Fest 2010. Maybe we should call this a blues-grass classic??…

Mark Driscoll is an increasingly popular Christian teacher, with a considerable ministry. One of my students at Asbury Seminary asked me to comment on this video (see above), more specifically on the use of Titus 2 in this video to justify a tradtional patriarchal home structure for Christians. Let me first say I have no…

  We’re, mercifully, only a week away from what has been one of the nastiest seasons of election campaigns in living memory, with more mud being slung and blood being spilled than in a monster truck rally in Rupp arena in Lexington Ky.   It’s enough to make the Founding Fathers (and Mothers) cry.   And it’s…

James R. Payton, Getting the Reformation Wrong. Correcting  some Misunderstandings,  (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2010), 240 pages, $23.                 History is unquestionably messy and complex, and this is all the more the case when one is considering some of the most turbulent and momentous epochs in history.  One such period is the Reformation, and James…

Colorado Springs is a pretty, spiritual place in many ways. It is the home of Navigators,  Dobson ministries, the Franciscan Retreat Center (where I met with the Ad Lib society),  the Air Force Chapel, and in terms of general revelation, the Garden of the Gods.   This post will be about what beauty erosion over millenia…
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