Stump Speeches

Building on the discussion of pleasures in my last post, I'll reveal here another of my secret pleasures.  I enjoy doing jigsaw puzzl...

This week I shed my elitist philosopher persona and drank deeply from the well of popular culture.  I bribed my kids to do some work for ...

My nearly month-long blogging silence has a reason.  I could appeal to the three-week class I was teaching in May, or the writing I've ...

I'm in a phase of sporadic blogging again, mostly due to the facts that I'm teaching a three-week course that meets every day for...

In my post the other day ( here ), I just kind of snickered at the position John Piper takes on the role of women.  The position is obvio...

Dallas Willard died today.  He recently revealed that he had very advanced cancer.  Willard was an ordained Baptist minister, a philosoph...

I suspect that I have an inner accountant somewhere that has been repressed.  I don't even know what accountants do beyond balancing a ...

John Piper was recently asked whether it was OK for men to read biblical commentaries that were written by women. (Find the podcast here ...

My grades are turned in.  I'm not sure yet how much of a difference that will make in my blogging life, but it will certain make a di...

This is entry #2 on Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp's The Predicament of Belief  (find #1 a few days ago here ).  Chapters 2 and 3 aim ...