Author: Tim Challies

May the Lord bless and keep you today. On sale at Westminster Books this week is a new volumes of systematic theology by Douglas Kelly. There are a couple of Kindle deals so far, with perhaps a few more to come in the morning. What happened at the ETS? I appreciated Denny Burk’s roundup of some of what transpired at the recent ETS meetings. The Danger of Nostalgia “What’s your favorite family memory? What is your favorite memory of church? Your favorite holiday …

May the God of love and peace be with you today. (Yesterday on the blog: Helpful Things You Can Say to Grieving Parents) Do We Really Want Everything That Technology Can Give Us? Gene Veith asks, “Do we want technology that overrides our agency as human beings? That babysits us? That keeps us in line? My sense is that we want technology that extends what we can do. Not technology that imposes itself upon us, or that creates conditions that we have …

Good morning, my friends. Grace and peace to you today. (Yesterday on the blog: The Last (Melodramatic) Hymn) Into the Metaverse Samuel James: “Facebook recently announced it is changing its name to Meta—short for ‘metaverse.’ As it rebrands, it continues its movement toward posthuman ambition that has been evident for many years. For nearly a decade, Facebook has been shifting the company away from an ethos of connecting real people and toward a kind of permanent digital habitation, the contraction …