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HSC News 200312/8—The latest of R.C.'s Bible studies is now available. Visit the online store. 11/24—Not a T-Shirt, but it's got our logo and you can wear it. Visit the online store. 11/21—The traditional St Peter third Sunday picnic will not be held in December, but will return in January. 11/14—Five new books from Peter Leithart available at the online store. 11/3—An important notice concerning our closed letter can be found here. 10/10—New information about activities during Fall Couples' Camp (Oct. 30 - Nov 1). See the events page for details. 10/2—Another new baby. See the Saenz family weblog for details. 9/25—Three new babies at St Peter! Details on the HSC weblog. 9/10—Four new Basement Tapes are now available at the online store.
9/10—Some photos from the Daugherty baptismal feast, held last Sunday, can be seen here.
9/5—Be sure to check out the latest updates to R.C.'s speaking schedule. 8/16—Some photos of our hometown favorites, the Reeltime Travelers, taken at last night's Border Bash performance. 8/6—Be sure to read about R.C.'s latest book, available at the online store.
8/4—August will be a busy month of preaching and teaching for R.C. Stay up to date on his wherabouts by checking the schedule page. 7/21—Who couldn't love a book titled Drinking with Calvin and Luther? You'll find it at the online store.
4/18—One more book before we go. This one is a particular favorite, a book of bedtime stories by Peter Leithart. Visit the online store for details.
4/18—Only two weeks back on the job, and already the webmaster is taking another break. Updates will resume on Monday, April 28. 4/17—Razormouth seems to be back online again. 4/16—Finally, three more Basement Tapes available in the online store. These are on Liberty, Providence, and Daughters of Zion.
4/15—Take your mind off government theft with a terrific history by Iain Murray of the swift and sobering decline of modern evangelicalism. You'll find it in the online store.
4/8—Three new books by C.S. Lewis are now available in the online store 4/2—Another short work week for the webmaster as he heads off to man the HSC booth at the Bay Area CHEA Convention in Santa Clara, where R.C. will be giving the keynote speech. Updates will resume on Monday. 4/1—New books from R.C. Sproul Sr. available in the online store 3/25—New books available in the online store, along with a promise of many more new titles in the near future.
3/20—There was one big surprise at the recent Ligonier conference; read about it on the HSC weblog. 3/18—Pouring oil on troubled waters, the webmaster addresses the Continuing Crisis by reviving the Breakfast Report. 3/11—This week's squib is early because the webmaster will be in Orlando the rest of this week, helping to staff the HSC info table at the 2003 Ligonier National Conference. Updates will resume on Monday. 3/10—R.C will be a featured speaker at the 2003 Ligonier National Conference in Orlando this week. The topic is “How Can We Glorify God?” R.C. will speak on “The Family as a Key to Reformation.” 3/4—Finally, the first of the 2003 Basement Tapes is available, this one on freedom. (Actually, the next one is on freedom as well, and should be available in a couple of weeks.) Visit the online store.
3/3—After 15 years of faithful service, Bonnie's Restaurant (home of the men's breakfast) is now closed. A Blockbuster Video will replace it. 2/22—The 2002 issues of Every Thought Captive have been proofread; you're welcome to notify the webmaster of any remaining typos. 2/17—The 2002 issues of Every Thought Captive are now being posted to the archives. Details on the HSC weblog. 2/12—If you (a) donated to the Study Center in 2002, (b) need a statement recording that donation, and (c) haven't received one yet, please contact us so we can get one to you. 2/6—The video/audio version of Tearing Down Strongholds is now available through the online store.
2/3—News alert! For the next two weeks, Renewing Your Mind will be broadcasting R.C.'s lecture series Tearing Down Strongholds. Details on the HSC weblog. 1/31—Jonathan Daugherty continues the Walker Mountain Sessions. 1/31—The latest issue of Every Thought Captive is in the mail.
1/15—Laurence has resumed weblogging; check out the latest additions to his Cartularium. 1/15—We'll be recording the first of the 2003 Basement Tapes tomorrow night. The topic of the conversation is freedom. 1/15—The Renewing Your Mind radio program will be running a two-part talk by R.C. on the simplicity of God; dates are January 27-28. Previous news items...
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Worth Reading“Coffee-houses were centres of scientific education, literary and philosophical speculation, commercial innovation and, sometimes, political fermentation.” The internet of the Enlightenment era? ... [more] (Thanks to Dave Hegeman) R.C. knows that something stinks when his friend Robert Barnes is forced to hold his nose ... [more]. Holiday greetings to the Reformed cyberworld ... [more] Cullen Murphy writes, “Surely there are a handful of standards on which we might all agree to hold the line. I'll propose ten.” ... [more] “If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”... [more] “Mensa has a serious, almost insurmountable image problem. Rather than having cachet, membership is now considered a mark of social inadequacy.” ... [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. writes: “It seems that our advances in technology have costs which even those who cheer those advances can’t ignore. While we can’t stop progress, we still want to go home again.” ... [more] Some thoughts on the passing of Carl Henry ... [more] More ministers in your church than ministries that can employ their gifts? Chad Degenhart considers a new area that church minstries might expand into ... [more]. “Every meeting had what I call 'the Catholic moment.' Someone would reveal that they were raised a Catholic but never knew God until they got into AA—there are all those rules, or the nuns hit them with rulers.” ... [more] Who's on the short list of top-dollar televangelists thes days? Take a look ... [more] “I hoped that the pro-abort defense of [partial birth abortion] would shock the public mind and reveal the truly crass, bloody, inhuman face of pro-choice America. Instead, it just made people more callused toward the killing.” Another view of incrementalism ... [more] Talk about a place at the table—evangelicals make the cover of U.S. News and World Report ... [more] “None of us knows this woman's specific circumstances. So how can we judge her?” Who? The woman who aborted her child because of its cleft palate ... [more] Gerry Wisz on working moms ... [more] The American Spectator occasionally bestows the Strange New Respect award on politicians who grow in office—leftward. R.C. Sproul Jr. sees the need for a similar award in Reformed circles ... [more] Some responses to R.C.'s squib on working moms ... [Sandlin] [Jacobsen] “Except for the female engineers wearing saris and the soothing Hindi pop music wafting through the open-air dining pavilion, this could be GE's giant R&D facility in upstate New York.” ... [more] “One church conducted a marketing survey to find out when congregants had free time to attend weekend services. The most common response: Saturday at 5 p.m., because Sunday was all but booked. ” ... [more] (Thanks to Lesli Mickool) Virginia Postrel tells us: “We are demanding and creating an enticing, stimulating, diverse, and beautiful world. We want our vacuum cleaners and mobile phones to sparkle, our bathroom faucets and desk accessories to express our personalities.” ... [book review] [interview] “Happily for New Luxury marketers, Americans are working more hours than ever, have more disposable income, and have less time to spend it in; and the family has collapsed.” ... [more] Piety that looks down its nose at the law of God ... [more] Thanksgiving isn't what it used to be, writes R.C. Sproul Jr. “Mom can't feed us because she's busy feeding the beast.” ... [more] “A dedicated husband-hunter should be no less zealous than General Mills in distinguishing her product from the competition.” ... [more] A happy ending for the 89-year-old woman land was sold for $572 in back taxes ... [more] Christ Church responds to recent accusations that it defends slavery ... [more] A great man, a little girl, and a sovereign God ... [more] From the no-comment zone ... [more] At St. Peter, when we feast, we feast. And when we fast, we feast. ... [more] In this post-9/11 world, be careful who you ask to co-sign a lease for you ... [more] (thanks to John VanDyk) “An 89-year-old woman could be evicted from her home of more than 50 years for missing one tax payment of $572.” ... [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. just got back from seeing Luther. He really liked it. . ... [more] Upwardly mobile phone jockey—or cyber-coolie? ... [more] One more difference between Muslims and Christians: the Muslims get to declare a fatwa when this sort of thing comes around ... [more] Investigators are on the case. And four cases of St. Terese's Pale Ale hang in the balance ... [more] You thought everyone has had their say about Auburn Avenue? Not quite everyone ... [more] “Why don't women run the world? Maybe it's because they don't want to.” ... [more] “It is better not to take a vow, than to take one and to break it.” R.C. Sproul Jr. defends popular culture—again! ... [more] A detailed look at how Randall Terry raises money—and how he spends it ... [more] “A new study from the Barna Research Group shows that most people have retained surprisingly traditional views about life after death.” Well, sort of ... [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. on Scottish revivals and the loss of institutional loyalty ... [more] From the no-comment zone ... [more] Gene Veith offers some guidance on how to read effectively ... [more] And in case you run short of things to read ... [more] PCUSA pastor Henry Brinton watches and wonders as his church disintegrates ... [more] “As we encourage living the simple life, we have not become Luddites. We do not look down our nose at technology, treating its youth as we would treat a sloppy puppy. But neither do we bow and scrape before it.” ... [more] Sometimes the church is forced to act ... [more]. “When confronting Rome we believe in the perspicuity of Scripture. But once that battle has ended, we are left thinking the Bible is rather a complicated book, needing someone smart like me to explain it.” ... [more] George Barna comes up with the scariest statistics. Just read through this survey of what born-again Christians believe ... [more] When it comes to tradition trumping scripture, R.C. Sproul Jr. points out that we Reformed folk “are worse than Rome. Our error is older.” ... [more] Fall comes to the Virginia Highlands ... [more]. Neil Postman has died ... [obituary] [remembrance]. Antinomianism is not “an obscure doctrine that troubles only seminary professors that tend toward either cathodoxy or its plainer sister neo-evangelicalism. Instead, antinomianism is as common as adultery.” ... [more]. “The cost of triple bypass surgery after she had a heart attack was $3,800, which she knows is a bargain because the total surgery bill was more than $100,000 -- but it was still $3,800.” ... [more]. Beauty is not found in the eye (or the ear) of the beholder, but it can show up in some surprising places ... [more]. The first of what we hope will be many letters to the editor has been posted to the HSC weblog ... [more]. R.C. Sproul Jr. meditates upon gardens and fruit, beams and motes, fire and water, serrated edges and old Christian comedy routines ... [more]. Some folks in California aren't too happy that state Senator Tom McClintock has a theonomist on his staff ... [more] Richard Weaver “was probably the first great disciple of the Vanderbilt Agrarians. As Walter Sullivan observed, he was the Saint Paul of the movement, too young to be one of the original twelve, but the most eloquent spokesman the cause ever had.” ... [more]. A nursery school director says: “This may be odd to say, but the teacher's aides we hire from Mexico and Guatemala know how to love a child better than the middle-class white parents.” ... [more]. Moby Dick adrift at night? ... [more]. R.C. Sproul Jr. explains today's big smile: “I don’t know if they’ll be coming with names, I only know they are coming. I’m not even clear whether they are two little boys and a little girl, or whether they are two little girls and a little boy. But I know they are coming.” ... [more]. A young couple found out a few months back that they would be having a baby, so naturally their thoughts turned to daycare. On his weblog the father asked for advice, and this is what he heard ... [more]. Forbes magazine surveys yet another industry—the Church. (There are ten related articles linked in the box labeled “Christian Capitalism.”) ... [more] (Thanks to Dave Hegeman) So—do we encourage people to move to Bristol, or not? ... [more] “This is like being alive in the day of Martin Luther — and being able to meet him,. This is the new Reformation.” ... [more] In just eight weeks, Thomas Nelson has sold 40,000 copies of Revolve, a Bible packaged as a magazine for teenaged girls. ... [more] Says the marketing director for the Revolve Bible, “God is not at all opposed to a fashion magazine or its format. ... We have removed the obstacle of the black-leather packaging.” ... [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. explains why we will soon be shutting down the comments forum ... [more] [comments]. “The gospel demands Christian education and Christian scholarship,” write Peter Leithart, “because the gospel, when preached without compromise, provokes dissent, and that dissent must be addressed.” ... [more] [comments] Men of the moment—or momentary men? ... [more] [comments] Johnny Cash is dead at 71 ... [more] [comments] Gene Veith writes: “Homosexuals are not only out of the closet; they are rearranging our cultural closet.” ... [more] [comments] There are many ways one might commemorate September 11, 2001. One of them is to go back and read through that day's Bible study in Tabletalk ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. speculates about why Saint Peter Presbyterian Church is so often accused of being a cult ... [more] [comments]. “Many cheese consumers have also bought into a certain agrarian romanticism, the sense that farming may be, as Benjamin Franklin asserted, ‘the only honest way’ to make a living.” ... [more] [comments]. Johnny Cash wrote a religious song that is turning the heads of cultured despisers—at least one of them ... [more] [comments]. Christians who set out to best secular culture on its own terms must either live by the rules—or die by the rules ... [more] [comments]. Paul Hill, the abortionist killer, is scheduled to die today by lethal injection at Florida State Prison. He does not regret what he did. Is he a lunatic—or merely a hair's breadth away from being right? [more] [comments] Being willing to go to the stake for one's faith may be something, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., but it isn't everything ... [more] [comments] Are we called to seize the culture by changing into three-piece suits, asks R.C. Sproul Jr.—or to build a culture by changing dirty diapers? ... [more] [comments]. John Derbyshire: “Any time one of these church-state controversies blows up, I read the arguments pro and con, scratch my head a bit, then pull out my handy Cato Institute pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, and try to figure out what all the fuss is about.” ... [more] [comments] Bob Vincent’s wife explained to him, “People sometimes get to a point where they aren't happy simply in knowing Jesus. They're not content. They want something more. So they go after something else, because they're not satisfied with Jesus.” ... [more] [comments]. Does the federal government have the right to interfere with state actions that may or may not constitute an establishment of religion? Alan Keyes explains why it doesn't ... [more] [comments]. Some encouragement for the weaker brother from R.C. Sproul Jr.—that they have the courage to subject their scruples to the judgment of history ... [more] [comments]. Having trouble coming to grips with the new styles of discourse that have become so fashionable in the online world? This guide to rhetorical strategies may be of some help ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. wonders what became of those daring foods of yesteryear ... [more] [comments]. Carmon Friedrich describes her family's experiences using the Robinson homeschool curriculum, where students are self-taught ... [more] [comments] Pragmatists overlook one fundamental principle, writes R.C. Sproul Jr.—God is sovereign ... [more] [comments]. Between 0 A.D. and 1820 A.D., per capita income tripled. Since 1820 income has increased thirteen-fold. The difference? Technological progress ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. asks what exactly we mean when we say “we” ... [more] [comments]. “Maybe it's time to admit the obvious. We don't really care about diversity all that much in America.” ... [more] [comments] Ignoring James’ instruction (3:1), pontificators are populating the internet with personal pulpits. R.C. Sproul Jr. surveys the resulting wreckage ... [more] [comments]. A new film biography of Martin Luther ... [more] [comments]. Relevant magazine and relevantmagazine.com “discuss faith, career, relationships, music—basically everything we're into—from an intelligent, fresh perspective. They get beneath the surface and ask the questions no one else is asking. In style, substance and focus, there's nothing like Relevant.” Join the revolution ... [more] [comments]. “You wouldn't look completely ridiculous pulling this out at lunch. It's not like some big, black Holy Bible you're pulling out. It's a magazine. A lot of people read magazines.” ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. wonders why ECUSA conservatives “are more concerned about what perversions the man practices in the dark than they are about the perversions preached from pulpits all across the denomination.” ... [more] [comments] The White House and Prison Fellowship are touting a study that they say demonstrates the effectiveness of the InnerChange rehabilitation program. But are they fudging the numbers? ... [more] [comments]. “In order to get on properly with life, as with mathematics, a great many things just need to be taken for granted.” John Derbyshire ponders the importance of not thinking too much ... [more] [comments]. World magazine interviews Bill Bennett about the recent flap over his gambling habits ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. has a confession to make ... [more] [comments] Even conservatives have their guilty pleasures ... [more] [comments]. Don't wear that Jesus junk T-shirt of yours too proudly—armed with the Patriot Act, the FBI is perfectly happy to take you down for a trademark violation ... [more] [comments]. Wendell Berry explained to folks why he wasn't going to buy a computer, and got blasted by ... feminists? Which led to a response, which evolved into another essay ... [first essay] [second essay] [comments]. “The truth, which Orwell pointed out, is that truly brilliant people and truly talented people often believe truly stupid things.” Some observations about our unhealthy obsession with intelligence .. [more] [comments] (Thanks to Carmon Friedrich) Six years after they stood in the gap, the Promise Keepers are still entertaining the faithful. ... [more] [comments]. “Could it be that when we say, ‘I made Jesus Lord of my life’ that we’re fools enough to actually believe it?" R.C. Sproul Jr. examines the family tree of a particularly pernicious philosophy—postmodernism ... [more] [comments] “Bible-babble aside, what exactly is Christianity's legacy to women in the workplace and at home? Well, thanks to religion teaching people to eschew the material world, the ‘home’ where women worked throughout most of Christianity's bleak history was a mud hut.” A quick trip to Bizarro World, courtesy of Wayne Dunn ... [more] [comments] (Thanks to Carmon Friedrich) “The evangelical Christian community seems to be wild about [George W.] Bush, claiming him as one of their own while ignoring the brightly blinking neon signs that point in the other direction.” ... [more] [comments] R.C. Sproul Jr. attends another CBA convention, and returns with some questions—which all boil down to one question: what are you waiting for? ... [more] [comments]. The German naming codex “exists to prevent parents from giving their children names that would be embarassing or would contradict good taste or would go against custom.” ... [more] [comments]. “Many of the nation's clergy members are closet brights, I suspect. We are, in fact, the moral backbone of the nation: brights take their civic duties seriously precisely because they don't trust God to save humanity from its follies.” ... [more] [comments] F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “There are no second acts in American life.” If he were alive today, he’d join Jim Bakker in writing “I was wrong.” ... [more] [comments]. Sometime during the 70s, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., people got over being ashamed of their behavior. And then ... [more] [comments]. J. Gresham Machen was prescient about a number of things, but ... the late unpleasantness in Iraq? ... [more] [comments]. (Thanks to Keith Mathison) R.C. Sproul Jr. applies the poetic vision to his personal history, and comes up puzzled—delightedly so ... [more] [comments] “Some of the views [RTS president Frank] Reich is embracing sound pretty silly to me. Predestination -- before the beginning of time, God foreordained that Buffalo would lose four consecutive Super Bowls? Of course, if you saw those games, it did look like a giant foot was stepping on the Bills the entire time.”... [more] [comments]. “This wasn't the contemporary Christian music scene they expected. Inching through the bustling and dirty festival grounds, the Roberts group—except for an ecstatic Brock—gasped as they passed lines of hippies, punks, Goths, brightly colored Mohawks, and lots of tattoos. Staring at a half-naked man in a dog collar, Jackie's oldest daughter asked Brock, ‘What have you gotten us into?’” ... [more] [comments]. How can it be that we finally get our hands on the levers of power, and the result is further pandering to sodomites and race pimps? R.C. Sproul Jr. explains ... [more] [comments] Terry Johnson attened the 31st PCA General Assembly and came away with this question: is the PCA about to abandon its liturgical culture for the sake of diversity in worship styles? ... [more] [comments] R.C. Sproul Jr. reminds us to remember the giver as we receive the gift ... [more] [comments]. Take time to peruse the latest issue of Credenda/Agenda to be posted online ... [more] [comments]. The Bryant family declined to have their homeschooled children take a standardized test. The Department of Social Services saw it differently: “We have legal custody of the children and we will do with them as we see fit. They are minors and they do what we tell them to do.” ... [more] [comments] Amarillo's Big Texan is actually a very good steakhouse, but its renown stems from an odd freebie it has offered for the past forty years ... [more] [comments]. It's Friday, so take a break and spend some time exploring a website devoted to the works of that “rollicking journalist” G.K. Chesterton ... [more] [comments]. From the back country of southwest Virginia, a dispatch from R.C. Sproul Jr. on how to properly receive God's blessings ... [more] [comments]. Ticking off others to the glory of God in six easy steps ... [more] [comments]. A particularly creative youth group turns the persecuted church into an evening's entertainment ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. reminds us that “things not being as they’re supposed to be, is exactly how things are supposed to be.” ... [more] [comments]. “In a fallen world, a society can survive and standards of morality be sustained at even a nominal level only if God's common grace is continually offered to us. But just as there are means of special grace that the Church has always recognized and encouraged, so there are means of common grace that must be kept healthy.” Ken Myers on modernity, morality, and common grace ... [more] [comments] Now that the populace is safe from drugs and WMDs, the government clamps down on a potential biological menace ... [more] [comments]. Randall Terry needs to buy a house where he can “entertain people of stature, people of importance.” Won't you help? ... [more] [comments]. Do we have a God-given right to an education? R.C. Sproul Jr. says it depends on which god you're talking about ... [more] [comments]. “The Las Vegas of the evangelical world.” ... [more] [comments]. K12—threat or menace? A look at William Bennett's plan to bring a new level of efficiency to homeschooling (and to make a few bucks in the processing) ... [more] [comments]. John Dunlap is trying to teach college freshmen to write. It isn't going very well ... [more] [comments]. “A generation ago, it was a given that churches would rent facilities until they could buy or build a permanent building. The reverse is happening in our generation. Churches are moving back into the marketplace.” ... [more] [comments] Two rules for plain speaking from R.C. Sproul Jr.: speak straight, even when you will be heard crooked; and hear straight, even when you have been told crooked ... [more] [comments]. “So if we now object to the view of Plato and Aristotle,” writes raisin farmer and historian Victor Davis Hanson, “it may be because we have lost empathy with the horny-handed farmer himself and his cargo of self-reliance, hard work, and a peculiar distrust of rich and poor alike.” ... [more] [comments]. Memorial Day should be a day of remembrance. Carmon Friedrich reflets on how freedom became just another word ... [more] [ comments]. Ransoms may be scandalous and costly, says kidnapped missionary Gracia Burnham, but they're hardly immoral. “Ransoms: that's what Jesus did, right? Jesus paid a ransom for us, and it cost him everything.” ... [more] [comments]. HSC Assistant Director Jonathan Daugherty reminds us that we must master our tools in every sense ... [more] [comments]. Rather than cowering behind transparency and openness, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., we are called to honestly share our joys—and our sorrows ... [more] [comments]. Even those whose life's goal is to get and keep their hands on the levers of power are becoming uneasy about the cost ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. remembers a friend, along with something we should all remember about our friends ... [more] [comments]. If you're a conservative evangelical couple that wants to continue cohabiting until your wedding day, Daniel Harrell of Park Street Church in Boston may be just the minister for you ... [more] [comments]. In centuries gone by, a comittee could produce a work of genius—consider the Wstminster divines, or the translators of the King James Bible ... [more] [comments]. Social scientists and your tax dollars—a frightening combination: “'Spiritual well-being is a really crucial, central aspect of how you cope with death.” ... [more] [comments] R.C. Sproul Jr. ponders the proclivities of portly pontificators and philandering pachyderms ... [more] [comments]. Is The Onion, that satirical online newspaper, too blasphemous and profane for you? There's now a Christian knock-off ... [more] [comments]. Phil Johnson stopped by John Wimber's Anaheim Vineyard one Sunday. Here's what he saw ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. takes aim at the cardinal evangelical virtue ... [more] [comments]. Peter Leithart writes: “When we act as if Christian community is a ‘safe haven’ in a heartless world, we are making common cause with the secularists, who are only too delighted to let us indulge our infantile communal fantasies in private, so long as we leave the public world to the (inevitably secular) grownups.” ... [more] [comments] Some puppy-training tips from the March/April issue of Every Thought Captive, courtesy of the R.C. Sproul Jr. School for Spiritual Warfare ... [more] [comments] “In many ways the stories of Jack Chick adhere to the standard rules and visual language of comic books: When people are angry or stressed, huge beads of sweat shoot off their foreheads. Bad men say things like "@#$%!"; exclamation points are everywhere.” ... [more] [comments]. (Thanks to Duane Garner.) William Bennett is exploring the virtues of high-stakes gambling; Washington Monthly reports that he has lost $8 million at it since the early nineties ... [more] [comments]. (Thanks to Carmon Friedrich) Marvin Olasky, editor of World magazine, offers some guidelines for improving your writing ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. notices for us that our worldliness is often revealed in the things we fail to notice ... [more] [comments]. Theonomists are not the only Christians who are convinced that the culture must be conquered for Christ ... [more] [comments]. Our friend Tim Varner asks: “How can a state in which 304,000 unborn are put to death annually with full legal approval charge a man for the murder of his unborn child?” ... [more] [comments] Vision Forum has just posted a collection of articles on women in the military; among them you'll find R.C. Sproul Jr. patiently explaining a simple truth we seem to have forgotten—boys protect girls ... [more] [comments]. Carmon Friedrich opens Pandora's Box by asking: “How does the modern trend of sending both our Christian daughters and sons to college fit in with the goal of fostering godly character?” ... [more] [comments] What is the proper relationship between Christians and culture? H. Richard Niebuhr had one answer, R.C. Sproul Jr. has a different one ... [more] [comments]. Having a tough time homeschooling? This mom has a suggestion—give it up ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. recently preached at the First Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Sunnyvale, California, and the sermon is online ... [more] [comments]. Ten bad things about the Federal income tax ... [more] [comments]. Gary North spells out some hard economic truths (and a few hard moral truths) about a college education ... [more] [comments]. What happens when Christian publishers pray that God might expand their territories ... [more] [comments]. World magazine has made three journalism books by Marvin Olasky available online: Telling the Truth, Prodigal Press, and Central Ideas in the Development of American Journalism ... [comments]. Peter Leithart defends the study of literature as a Christian pursuit ... [more] [comment]. Renewing America, one child (and ten dollars) at a time ... [more] [comments]. Denise Sproul observes that it takes a certain measure of agressive meanness to properly tend a garden ... [more] [comments]. William H. Smith writes that “the greatest threat to the unity of Reformed evangelicals may not be our doctrinal differences but the possibility that we may be approaching a situation in which some may not be willing or able to worship together.” ... [more] [comments]. Carmon Friedrich provides a detailed report on R.C.'s teaching this weekend at the Bay Area CHEA Convention ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. considers the challenge of maintaining a grateful heart while living in a land of plenty ... [more] [comments]. Both homeschoolers and constant readers will derive strength and encouragement at Buried Treasure, a weblog run by Carmon Friedrich ... [more] [comments]. “Joan Baez [said] that she didn't understand why anyone would think of Amazing Grace as a religious song.” ... [more] [comments]. Christian History magazine devoted an entire issue to Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy ... [more] [comments]. Most comforting headline in recent memory: “Iraq War has Little Effect on Rapture Index” ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. asks this dismaying questions: how is it that we Reformed folk can know so much about God but still fail to take him at his word? ... [more] [comments] The latest issue of the Chalcedon Report is online, with an article from R.C. Sproul Jr. on evangelicals who divorce while remaining married ... [more] [coments]. From the vaults: in hopes of lending courage to like-minded sufferers, R.C. Sproul Jr. makes a startling confession ... [more] [comments]. All the good stuff happens in Florida; first the Ligonier Conference, and now this ... [more] [still more] [comments]. (Thanks to hupotasso) A paean to Google, by far the most useful tool for making sense of the internet ... [more] [comments]. Good grammar is useful in polite company. But R.C. Sproul Jr. reminds us that it is also essential to godliness ... [more] [comments]. More on the hot cross bun ban ... [more] [comments]. It's subtle even for British humour, but the webmaster rules that this ban on Easter hot cross buns is in fact a joke .. [more] [comments]. “The [Christian] liberals basically spent the last 40 years saying, ‘Let's hear the voice of the Third World.’ And now they've heard it and they'd like the Third World to shut up for several decades.” ... [more] [comments]. Save a life, go to jail—at least if you're a midwife in the wrong state ... [more] [comments] (Thanks to Harry Seabrook.) “That what makes us love our own memories, more often than not, is that which drinks from the well of the eternal.” R.C. Sproul Jr. waxes nostalgic—and encounters the eternal ... [more] [comments]. This is pretty cool—George Grant now has his own weblog ... [more] [comments]. From the buckle of the Bible Belt, no less, some questions about the propriety of displaying a national flag in the sanctuary ... [more] [comments]. “We are wise when we have the humility not to think we can see where God is going,” writes R.C. Sproul Jr. “But we are forgetting His providence if we deny that He is in fact going somewhere.” ... [more] [comments] “Sometimes if I feel there is a healing need, I put my hand on the screen. Or if there is a whole lot of conflict and a little evil going on, I would make a cross on the screen.” The power of computer-mediated prayer ... [more] [comments]. Denise Sproul reminds us that every mother has been given the gift—and the duty—of speaking prophetically ... [more] [comments]. When it comes to buying and selling, writes Gerry Wisz, Christians often provide the world with an example of how not to do things ... [more] [comments] Sifting through the debris of the entertainment culture, Gene Veith finds that marriage is still the ideal ... [more] [comments]. The entertainment culture is a bountiful giver, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., but its gifts lure us into cultural poverty ... [more] [comments]. The HSC webmaster offers a few thoughts—mostly skeptical—about the current vogue for cyber-community ... [more] [comments]. Finally, an answer to the question you probably never thought to ask: what would Jesus eat? ... [more] [comments] Ralph Wood thinks that The Two Towers succeeds admirably as an action film—and that therein lies its failure to accurately transfer Tolkien's novel to the screen ... [more] [comments]. Too bad this didn't show up just as the blizzard hit—the final two issues for 2002 of Credenda/Agenda ... [more] [comments]. Always looking to make lemonade from lemons, Dr. Bruce Bellamy proposes a theme Sunday that speaks to our times ... [more] [comments]. Socialism is a monster that feeds us in order to feed on us, writes R.C. Sproul Jr. ... [more] [comments]. James M. Boice didn't much care for the idea of the children's sermon ... [more] [comments]. R.C. Sproul Jr. joins with Moses in wishing that all the Lord's people were prophets ... [more] [comments] David Bahnsen provides some informed speculation as to how his father would have viewed the Auburn Avenue Controversy ... [more] [comments] (thanks to Keith Mathison for this). Our friend Phil Lancaster, editor of Patriarch magazine, responds to Steve Schlissel's recent article on homeschooling ... [more] [comments]. Dave Shiflett informs us of the past (and future) religious history of Valentine's Day ... [more] [comments] Disagreement is a lost art, as is learning from the disagreements of others. R.C. Sproul Jr. offers some agreeable observations on this ... [more] [comments]. Keith Mathison sparks a discussion of an especially troubling danger that can result from examining a text too closely ... [more] [comments]. Did you expect to ever read an article entitled “Alabamians Professing Faith in God Have a Moral Duty to Support Tax Reform”? Here's your chance ... [more] [comments]. The longer Alabama Law Review version ... [more]. The 2002 issues of Every Thought Captive will be online soon, very soon. Whet your appetite with one of R.C. Sproul Jr.'s articles from the “Plundering the Egyptians” issue ... [more] [comments]. Do fast food chains destroy regional cuisines, or do they actually preserve and propagate them? ... [more] [comments]. Despite the enthusiasm for abortion among Americans, we're still lagging behind the rest of the developed world ... [more] [comments]. It's not so hard to know whether a government program is legitimate—just apply R.C. Sproul Jr.'s simple test ... [more] [comments]. An alert reader reminds us that Nathaniel Hawthorne once updated Pilgrim's Progress to encompass certain American religious innovations ... [more] [comments]. The recent decision by Canadian Anglicans to bless homosexual “marriages” was too much for J.I. Packer, who joined other synod members in declaring themselves out of communion with their bishop ... [more] [comments]. “Evangelicals are using the market to fashion and refashion themselves, and to project the resulting identity to others, in just the way that all consumers do.” Jeremy Lott on Christian merchandising ... [more] [comments]. We're all voyeurs now, as security through obscurity becomes a thing of the past. Curious about someone? Type their name into a search engine—and settle in for some extended reading ... [more] [comments]. The latest Credenda/Agenda is available online. This time around the Muscovites explore the meaning of ... wood? ... [more] [comments]. As we follow the debate over Hebrew versus Greek mindsets, R.C. Sproul Jr. reminds us to also consider the Holy Spirit's mindset ... [more] [comments]. Pre-emptive strikes are not the exclusive tool of well-meaning superpowers; contributor Keith Mathison finds it necessary to respond to one. ... [more]. Occasional contributor A.K. Fortyseven offers both scriptural and pragmatic justification for gun ownership, along with advice on how to obtain one ... [more] [comments]. “How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself? Because that is his job and we pay him to do it? Because your life is of incalculable value, but his is only worth the $30,000 salary we pay him?" ... [more] [comments] Doug Jones challenges the arrogantly pagan view of truth that leads Christian parents to shield their children from fiction ... [more] [comments]. Our R.C. Sproul Jr. marathon continues with a new squib, a look at the latest fashion in foreign policies ... [more] [comments]. As part of a special online feature Our National Sin: Vision Forum Ministries Looks at 30 Years of Roe v. Wade R.C. Sproul Jr. observes that the Christian Right stands now at a crossroads ... [more] [comments] R.C. Sproul Jr. writing for Billy Graham's Decision magazine? Stranger things have happened (but not many) ... [more] [comments]. To strengthen covenant faithfulness, writes Laurence Windham, we must carefully construct (and reconstruct) our family traditions ... [more] [comments]. Philip Pullman is being positioned as the Anti-Lewis, secular liberalism's best hope for destroying Narnia ... [more] [comments]. Christine Scheller attends a homeschooling convention and surveys the current landscape ... [more] [comments]. The covenant is not just a concept to be fussed over, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., but a reality to be lived out—and to be celebrated ... [more] [comments] The 2002 issues of Every Thought Captive will be online soon. To whet your appetite, here's an article by Jonathan Daugherty on serious merrymaking ... [more] [comments]. Is God truly without passions? Philip Johnson examines the doctrine of divine impassibility ... [more] [comments]. Blame the webmaster, not the writer, for belatedly posting last Thursday's squib, wherein R.C. Sproul Jr. ponders an offer frome Rep. Charles Rangel ... [more] [comments]. Joel Belz wonders if even gruesome billboard-sized photos of aborted babies are dramatic enough to touch hardened hearts ... [more] [comments]. It's dismaying, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., when the blind pig of faddishness stumbles upon a particularly tasty and nutritious acorn ... [more] [comment]. In 1936, journalist Albert Jay Nock offered some observations on the nature of a prophet's job ... [more] [comments]. It's hard to believe that there are actually two well-known theologians named R.C. Sproul. Read an interview with the other one ... [more] [comments]. Early Christian writings are not always easy to find on the web. Here's a nicely organized index of such writings, along with writings about the writings ... [more] [comments]. The latest Credenda/Agenda is available online. This time around the Muscovites explore the meaning of ... wood? ... [more] [comments]. As we follow the debate over Hebrew versus Greek mindsets, R.C. Sproul Jr. reminds us to also consider the Holy Spirit's mindset ... [more] [comments]. Pre-emptive strikes are not the exclusive tool of well-meaning superpowers; contributor Keith Mathison finds it necessary to respond to one. ... [more]. Occasional contributor A.K. Fortyseven offers both scriptural and pragmatic justification for gun ownership, along with advice on how to obtain one ... [more] [comments]. “How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself? Because that is his job and we pay him to do it? Because your life is of incalculable value, but his is only worth the $30,000 salary we pay him?" ... [more] [comments] Doug Jones challenges the arrogantly pagan view of truth that leads Christian parents to shield their children from fiction ... [more] [comments]. Our R.C. Sproul Jr. marathon continues with a new squib, a look at the latest fashion in foreign policies ... [more] [comments]. As part of a special online feature Our National Sin: Vision Forum Ministries Looks at 30 Years of Roe v. Wade R.C. Sproul Jr. observes that the Christian Right stands now at a crossroads ... [more] [comments] R.C. Sproul Jr. writing for Billy Graham's Decision magazine? Stranger things have happened (but not many) ... [more] [comments]. To strengthen covenant faithfulness, writes Laurence Windham, we must carefully construct (and reconstruct) our family traditions ... [more] [comments]. Philip Pullman is being positioned as the Anti-Lewis, secular liberalism's best hope for destroying Narnia ... [more] [comments]. Christine Scheller attends a homeschooling convention and surveys the current landscape ... [more] [comments]. The covenant is not just a concept to be fussed over, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., but a reality to be lived out—and to be celebrated ... [more] [comments] The 2002 issues of Every Thought Captive will be online soon. To whet your appetite, here's an article by Jonathan Daugherty on serious merrymaking ... [more] [comments]. Is God truly without passions? Philip Johnson examines the doctrine of divine impassibility ... [more] [comments]. Blame the webmaster, not the writer, for belatedly posting last Thursday's squib, wherein R.C. Sproul Jr. ponders an offer frome Rep. Charles Rangel ... [more] [comments]. Joel Belz wonders if even gruesome billboard-sized photos of aborted babies are dramatic enough to touch hardened hearts ... [more] [comments]. It's dismaying, writes R.C. Sproul Jr., when the blind pig of faddishness stumbles upon a particularly tasty and nutritious acorn ... [more] [comment]. In 1936, journalist Albert Jay Nock offered some observations on the nature of a prophet's job ... [more] [comments]. |
