Nov 237 min readMy Top Ten Books of 2024It's that time of year again. The time when websites begin filling up with top ten lists. Top ten favorite books. Top ten favorite...
Aug 93 min readTwo More Reformed Orthodox Classics in Translation "When I was young, I had to walk five miles in the snow to school every day! Uphill, both ways!" We've all heard the cliches about how...
Aug 73 min readTwo Recent Scholarly Books on DispensationalismBecause my first years as a Christian were spent in dispensationalist circles, I will always have at least an academic interest in the...
Jul 33 min readJ. Gresham Machen and the Transformation of CultureI have recently been re-reading J. Gresham Machen's Christianity & Liberalism, which was published just over a century ago in 1923. Many...
Jul 28 min readPolitical Ideology vs. SciencePolitical ideology has always been a dangerous thing, particularly when utopians get power and get impatient, but political ideology is...
Jun 121 min readToward a Reformed ApologeticsI haven't posted much on this blog site in the last year. I had a number of other things on my plate. One such project was a new book...
Mar 285 min readThe Eternal Thirstiness of the SonAccording to the Gospel of John, when Jesus was on the cross, he said, "I thirst" (John 19:28). How many theologians or New Testament...
Aug 9, 20232 min readTheology & TolkienOn September 15, the first volume of a two-volume work entitled Theology & Tolkien will be be published by Fortress Academic. I have...
Apr 6, 20237 min readDispensationalism Before Darby?Dispensationalism Before Darby: Seventeenth-Century and Eighteenth-Century English Apocalypticism. By William C. Watson. Lampion Press,...
Mar 31, 20235 min readThe Bombadil Enigma, Part Two: The Mroczkowski Letter Several years ago, I wrote a lengthy blog post titled The Bombadil Enigma. In it, I examined the decades-long debate surrounding the...