Here is a passage that I often return to, from the inaugural address of one of my presidential predecessors, Edward John Carnell: Whoever meditates on the mystery of his own life will quickly realize why only God, the searcher of the secrets of the heart, can pass final judgment. We cannot judge what we have […]
In my last blog I discussed cremation. I’ll stick with death-related thoughts for another time around.
In a presentation I gave to an Oxford philosophy symposium recently, I talked about possible links between philosophical and theological discussions of the metaphysical composition of the human person. I gave some attention particularly to an excellent essay—it has become...
Someone wrote recently to ask me for my views about cremation. This is the second time I have been asked about this in the past six months. In each case the person requesting my thoughts was not sure that cremation was a proper practice for Christians, and the expectation was that I would provide a theological rationale...
Often I sing in the shower. And I frequently surprise myself at what I sing, and I try to figure out where the song came from in my psyche.
Recently it was a song that went like this: “Lord, I’m trampin’, trampin’/ wanna make heaven my home/ Hallelujah, Lord, I’m trampin’, trampin’/ wanna make heaven my...
Lorna Byrne can see angels. Her book chronicling her angelic encounters is presently at the top of the best-seller list in her native Ireland. And she will soon be well known to the rest of us, since after a bidding war by American publishers, her book has been sold to the house that brought us The Da Vinci Code.
There...
There is some evangelical buzz right now about a new biography of the late Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade (Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America by John G. Turner). There is a helpful review of the book at the Christianity Today website.
I plan to read the...
We are in England where the headlines this weekend have been all about Senator Obama’s recent meetings with British leaders. If he were running for Prime Minister here it looks like he would have a good chance of winning!
John McCain’s campaign staff members have been complaining about what they see as a media bias in...
Phyllis and I hosted a breakfast recently with the Building Services team on our Pasadena campus. We wanted to thank them for their work, and to find out more about their daily duties. It was an inspiring conversation, with folks who are deeply committed to the mission of the seminary.
During my many years when I...
I’ve finished reading John Muether’s excellent biography of Cornelius Van Til, published recently by P&R Publishing. I will be reviewing it for Books & Culture. Reading it was a bit of a nostalgia trip for me. Van Til, a longtime professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, was one of the better known theologians among evangelicals...
A few years ago the travel section of one of the newspapers did a lighthearted feature on some of the funniest English-language signs people had seen in cities around the world where English was not the first language. The only one I remember was a notice on the window of a tailor shop in an Asian city:...
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