I am often asked how I read so many books. My pat answer is something like this: “The more you read, the easier it gets. When you’ve read 8 books on marriage, the 9th goes really quickly.” The point is that there is a kind of sameness to Christian publishing where books tend to focus on the same themes, exposit the same passages, quote the same authors, and in the end say roughly the same things. It’s awfully refreshing, then, …
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May the Lord be with you and bless you today. Westminster Books is offering a deep discount on a book I reviewed last week. Queer Nation Is No Nation At All Carl Trueman: “Flags typically serve as rallying points for unity. They point to something a culture considers sacred. The Stars and Stripes was, for many generations, precisely such a rallying point in America. The fact that flag burning, while protected by the Constitution, was deemed by both its opponents …
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Blessings to you, my friends. (Yesterday on the blog: Are We Performing or Are We Participating?) One Month After the Roe Leak: Reflections on the Supreme Court’s Draft Opinion Though we saw many hot takes on that leaked draft of the majority opinion of the Supreme Court, Steven Wedgeworth waited a month to offer some slightly more mature reflections. Expressive Individualism and the Death of Mental “Illness” “Everyone who knows anything at all knows you must never attribute someone’s character …
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With due respect to my Reformed Presbyterian friends, I think it’s difficult to make the argument that singing in the local church must not be accompanied by instrumentation. But with due respect to everyone else, I think it’s equally difficult to make the argument that singing in the local church must be accompanied by instrumentation. It seems to me that we have a lot of freedom here—freedom to sing in a way that matches our convictions and freedom to sing …
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Westminster Books has just refreshed its children’s fiction section and is offering some pretty good deals. Today’s Kindle deals include at least one good book from RHB. The indelible conscience and a month of “pride” “In case you haven’t heard, June 1 no longer marks the end of the school year or the unofficial beginning of summer. It’s the start of Pride Month. Initially conceived in 1970 to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Pride Month has become …
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