Category Archives: What I’m Reading

This site is a lot of fun for anyone living in or coming from the UK. It will tell you how high status your surname is (click on ‘Geographical Location’ over the map), and all sorts of other pieces of … Continue reading →

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There are occasions when you feel like kicking yourself for missing something that has been staring you in the face all the time. In the past I have tended to see the relationship between Exodus 32 and the Day of … Continue reading →

Telford Work writes: Sometimes the issues that create friction and develop doctrine come from the margins, not the center, of the Christian faith. The result is a shift in the tradition’s theological center of gravity: Iconoclasm directed Orthodox attention towards … Continue reading →

A few months back I wrote the following: Eco also draws his reader’s attention to the manner in which a number of thinkers imposed preconceived conclusions upon the evidence that they encountered in their different fields and activities and failed … Continue reading →

So the outward turn of attention in Luther’s doctrine of justification, based on a kind of sacramental externalism and summed up in the phrase “alien righteousness,” must not be confused with the very different externalism of the purely forensic doctrines … Continue reading →

Besides highlighting the word “Zion” or “Sion,” the two conspiracy theories [that of the ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and that of The Da Vinci Code] share an understanding of how to deal with ideas you disagree with. … Continue reading →

I apologize for this post’s title. I just discovered that Slash (of G’n’R fame) was raised in Stoke-on-Trent. More than a little surprising. On balance I would rather be associated with Slash than with Stoke’s other famous rock star son … Continue reading →

Having read most of a pre-publication version of this book (thanks to Dennis for first telling me about this), I can highly recommend it. It is bound to provoke the reader to deeper reflection. There are points of startling and … Continue reading →

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