Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, freedom of speech, information access, and more
An interesting post by the Ugley Vicar makes a point that is worth repeating: Maybe you are a square peg in a round hole – there is no shame in that. One of the turning points in my life came when, sitting in the vicarage in Sparkbrook, my eye was caught by Romans 12:6: “Having gifts [...]
From the Daily Mail today: Thank Heavens for Snow Angels! How a group of Christians got through to help stranded drivers hours efore the emergency teams arrived Motorists stranded on A23 towards Brighton for up to 13 hours But more than 30 Plymouth Brethren turned out to lend a helping hand Airports and railways also [...]
It’s now official. In Britain, you may not operate an adoption agency if you are a Christian. That is, according to a doubtless carefully selected judge, the law. The establishment have kept the story quiet, as well they might; but there is a report in the Daily Mail: … a four-year legal battle by the adoption society Catholic [...]
Christians revere the word of God. We base our lives on it. We study it, trying to immerse ourselves in it, in order to shape ourselves into what God wants us to be. But we do this using translations of the word into English (or French, if we are French; German if we are German; [...]
Via Trevin Wax: Andrew Peterson: Everybody’s got the same ache; everybody’s carrying around the same sense of dissatisfaction with the state of the world. If they claim otherwise, I just don’t believe them. No matter how happy we are, there’s something nagging at us, something troubling at the periphery of our days, like we’re on [...]
Echurch Blog asks what biblical principles should guide bloggers, referencing a tremendous (if long) article by Bryan Chappell over at Gospel Coalition. It’s full of good things: The reason some of today’s advocacy journalism and web commentary are so dangerous to Christians is not because we are blind to their biases. Rather, the danger lies [...]
There is a useful article here at Tyndale House by Simon Gathercole on this curious discovery of a 4th century fragment of papyrus with a Coptic apocryphal text on it. I hope that the media attention may raise the profile of papyrology, and Coptic studies, and perhaps draw people into an interest in either of [...]
In the last year I have taken the time to read quite a few Christian novels. I read a lot anyway. But it is remarkable how much effect this has had on my attitudes, and on how close I feel to God. It makes sense, really. What we take inside ourselves tends to determine what [...]
There has been hardly any reporting of this story, so obviously there is no need for anyone to, like, pay much attention. The list of effective antibiotics has been dwindling as the bacteria became resistant, and now it’s down to one. So, yes, getting gonorrhea now means that you have to go in and get [...]
Via Trevin Wax I encounter this post by John Piper, referring to Fred Sander’s post about Victorian liberal preacher F. W. Robertson: There is a connection between skilled vagueness and concealed immorality. Why else would a man use great gifts to make things unclear unless he was afraid of clarity? And fear of clarity in [...]