There hasn’t been any blogging activity here for a few days, and that’s because we were preparing our first work, “The Kingdom Has Drawn Near: Studies in The Gospel Jesus Preached”, for publication.  The first proof copy is being printed as we speak, and should arrive in a few days.  After we review the proof [...]

This past Sunday night, as I was pulling into my driveway after a fantastic post-worship fellowship time with some friends, I had a sudden urge.  An urge to build something.  Something real and beautiful.  Something with bricks and mortar.  Something that would be hard to build, that would involve a certain degree of physical suffering, [...]

This post is a draft of a presentation to be given on opening night at the Long Island Movie Night event.
Why, as Reformed Christians, do we watch movies? What justification, if any, can we give for spending a couple of hours at a time sitting passively in front of a screen? Beyond that, how can [...]

I am still plowing through Herman Bavinck’s Essays on Religion, Science, and Society, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.  If you enjoy theology and philosophy, this book is for you.  While learning about the Covenanters and the more general foundations for their thinking on a Christian’s role in the world around him, I somehow [...]

Orthodoxy is not often considered in conjunction with creativity; in fact, orthodoxy and originality are frequently taken to be inimical. It is my contention, however, that the two should kiss and make up, as justice and mercy do.
The reason that doctrinal/practical fidelity is thought to be at odds with innovation is simply this: in almost [...]

“I now repeat,” replied Don Quixote, “what I have said many times before, that the majority of people in this world believe that knights-errant have never existed, and I hold that unless Heaven miraculously convinces them of the truth—that there were and that there are—any labor that I may undertake for that purpose must be [...]

Skeptics would have my utmost respect if I was able to learn of their skepticism apart from their own utterance. Someone else telling me about a skeptic will not do, because the communication “He is a skeptic” would only be legitimate if it traces back to the skeptic himself saying or somehow communicating “I am [...]

G. K. Chesterton once said of W. B. Yeats, “He is not stupid enough to understand fairyland. Fairies prefer people of the yokel type like myself; people who gape and grin and do as they are told.” I have begun to wonder if the God of the Bible does not share this preference with the [...]