Last month, Alister McGrath’s new biography of C. S. Lewis hit the shelves. If you missed the release, join the club. I did too. The book is titled C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet, and it is apparently being very well-received. Yesterday, another Lewis biographer—A. N. Wilson—reviewed the new work for The Daily Beast, and it looks like McGrath’s book may become the definitive biography on Lewis. Wilson writes, There have been plenty of biographies of Lewis—I once wrote one myself—but I do not think there has been a better one than Alister McGrath’s. He is a punctilious and enthusiastic reader of all Lewis’s work—the children’s…
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A Succinct Case for Traditional Marriage
As arguments for traditional marriage fall on deaf ears in our culture, I believe that love requires us to make the case nevertheless (1 Cor. 13:6). To that end, we need to marshal all the arguments at our disposal—both biblical and natural law arguments. The natural law case has been made most effectively in the recent book What Is Marriage? This book makes the case without appealing to religious authority but with an exclusive appeal to a “publicly accessible” rationale for traditional marriage. One of the co-authors of that book, Ryan Anderson, has also just recently published an article that distills the case for traditional marriage into twelve pages. It’s…
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A youth conference your students won’t want to miss
The apostle Paul writes, If the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. -1 Cor. 15:16-17 There is no more fundamental issue regarding the truthfulness and the hope of Christianity than the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That is why Southern Seminary and Boyce College are hosting a youth conference on just that topic later this month. The speakers include Albert Mohler, Russell Moore, Jimmy Scroggins, and Greg Gilbert. If you have a church youth group or know of a youth group, I encourage you to get them…
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Chávez’s Last Words and Yours
The head of Venezuela’s presidential guard was with Hugo Chávez during his final moments. His report on Chávez’s last words paints a picture of a man desperately clinging to life. According to this report, Chávez said: I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die. As a rule, I’m no fan of socialist dictators—particularly those of Chávez’s ilk. But this strikes me as one of the saddest things I’ve ever read. I grieve to think about what the horror of his final moments must have been like. Death is no respecter of persons—not even of billionaire Presidents who command a cult-like following among their countrymen. Not even of you.…
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Raising children in a pervasive culture of pornography
Rod Dreher’s post on the inconsistencies of “Lifestyle Liberalism” is a must-read. It is hitting at some pretty fundamental issues, and it does so from a number of different angles. First, it’s wrestling with how to raise kids (especially sons) in an age in which pornography is so pervasive and available. Second, it exposes the moral listlessness of liberalism, which in the wake of the sexual revolution has destroyed all boundaries around sexual behavior. Third, it exposes the fact that there are so few institutions left standing today that will support parents in resisting the sexual lasciviousness of our culture.
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Sen. Paul’s filibuster about executing American citizens
As I write this, Senator Rand Paul is in his fifth hour of a filibuster. This is not one of those pseudo-filibusters that don’t involve actually holding forth. This is a real-deal filibuster, like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Senator Paul is doing a Jimmy Stewart right now. You can watch the opening statement of his filibuster above. In short, here’s why he’s doing what he’s doing:
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What we talk about when we talk about Oldsmobiles
The new trailer for Rob Bell’s forthcoming book is out (see above). If you don’t want to spend three minutes watching it, here’s my quick summary of it.
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Rescued
This is a preview of a new Easter video from Igniter Media. These guys do great work. You can purchase the HD version without the watermark at their website. *Note: This video contains some graphic imagery.
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No one was safe in SBTS’s chapel today
Kevin Smith brought the heat today in SBTS’s chapel. It was a political sermon in all the right ways. No one was safe. In my view, he simply said what needed to be said. He contended that there’s a big difference between American Christianity and Christians in America. Taking his lead from 1 Pet. 2:9-12, he said that Christians have forgotten what it means to be a “peculiar” people—strangers and aliens on our way to another place. He dinged Republicans, Democrats, whites, blacks and everyone in between…in a good way. In a prophetic way. Listen to this sermon. You can watch the video above, download the audio here, or listen…
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Full video of Doug Wilson’s debate with Andrew Sullivan about gay marriage
I wrote two posts about this debate last week (see here and here), but until now the video hasn’t been available. You can see all of it above. If you don’t have time for all two hours, you can watch about four and a half minutes of highlights below. A big thanks and hat tip to CanonWired.com for making these available.