Protestant Nonconformist Texts: The Eighteenth Century (Protestant Nonconformist Texts) (Protestant Nonconformist Texts) (v. 2)
The Corner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Responding to an e-mail query I posed to him about a Corner post on October 26 , Rick Brookhiser (on November 3 ) claimed: “My correspondent [Bostom] and the Islamists say that Islam is unchanging, because the Koran says so.” First, let me point out that Mr. Brookhiser has equated me with the wrong “Islamists.” Through at least the mid-1950s, dedicated students of Islamic doctrine...
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Claude Welch, eminent historian of nineteenth-century theology, died on November 6. Claude was an institutional pillar of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where I got my PhD. In their obituary, the GTU lists his terms of service to the school. He was Dean and President from 1971 to 1982, and Dean from 1982 to [...]
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | yesterday
Below is a very interesting article about my favourite conversative thinker (not that I agree with him as such but he does have a lot of interesting...
Just Politics (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By ignoring the role of Islam in the Ft. Hood shootings, we do ourselves a grave disservice. Related posts: Suicide, Terrorism, and the Looming Tower Obama’s Cairo Speech – Words He Used Tell bin Laden Obama has “Ended” the War on Terror What Does Obama Believe? Obama and the Media’s Iran Blindspot
internetmonk.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
We’re nearing the end of this series. I’m very honored by all of you who have stayed along for the entire ride. I hope that someone has given consideration to the lost glory of the Protestant liturgical tradition and the many wonderful Biblical, Gospel and ecumenical connections that are possible in re-establishing some form of [...]
The Ugley Vicar (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A correspondent sent me a link to this article from Christianity Today, headlined 'Not all Evangelicals and Catholics Together'. Bishop Tom Wright is expressing surprise at the thought that his theological views are influencing people in this way. Later in the article he is quoted as saying, "I am sorry to think that there are people out there whose Protestantism has been so barren that they...
Secular Right (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question: By many standards, the JFS applicant, identified in court papers as “M,” is Jewish. But not in the eyes of the school, which defines Judaism under the Orthodox definition set out by Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Because M’s [...]
The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I'm regularly vexed by my inability to seamlessly rehash empirical data in conversation when I'd assumed it would easily stick as I came upon it for the first time. It's hardly a frustration unique to me, and the conventional explanation that it takes ingesting information three times to internalize it seems to be generally accurate in my experience. Sometimes, though, I am surprised by the inaccuracy...
A conservative blog for peace (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A week of RR Sprawling US base in Afghanistan is bursting at the seams. Manufacturing felons. Obama keeps Cuba embargo. Mess with the ’Net as it is, it will simply morph into something else. That’s a very, very, very good thing. And just not fair atall. Some things are worth fighting for, Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel not being among them for Americans. True but of course the Soviets won...
Executed Today (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
At dawn this date in 1550, two sons* of Jon Arason were beheaded at Skalholt, followed by the energetic sextegenerian prelate himself — cementing Lutheranism in Iceland. As bishop of the northern diocese of Holar and one of the most powerful pols in Iceland, Arason did what he could to maintain papal authority when the Danish [...]
outside is better (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This week I have started to do some planning for our Advent services at Asbury Seminary for next month. A quick trip to the library for some resources both excited and disappointed me. While Advent has been getting press over...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The rise of the Guises and the Cecils Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. By Stuart Carroll. Oxford University Press; 368 pages; $34.95 and GBP18.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk The Cecils: Privilege and Power Behind the Throne. By David Loades. The National Archives; 256 pages; $34.95 and GBP9.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ...
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Think the Western Church is Jan Crouch or Borgia Popes? Believe that English Protestantism is Oliver Cromwell tyranny in service of the cultural values of Elmer Gantry? Read Spenser and take the cure. The notion that Protestantism, at least of sort, destroys the ability to produce great literature should be refuted by the mere existence of Milton, but [...]
internetmonk.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
5. What is your assessment of Pope Benedict’s opening the doors of the church to disaffected Anglicans? Will this speed up the path into the priesthood for men in the Anglican ministry? For a number of years now, thousands of Anglicans have been asking the Holy See to allow them to enter into full communion with [...]
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