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In Jacob & the Prodigal Kenneth Bailey shows how the Parable of the Lost Sheep (Luke 15:3-7) has dramatic and thematic parallels to thr...

HT: Between Two Worlds

In Shia Islam the 40th day after someone dies is a significant day of mourning. Today was the 40th day since 26 year old Neda Soltan was sho...

I've started to read DG's attractive reprint of Portrait of Calvin by T.H.L. Parker, originally published in 1954. Englishman Parke...

Carl Trueman is Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary. He's been doing a series of sho...

One of missiologist Lesslie Newbigin's central insights was that our reading of the Bible is conditioned by the cultural lenses we view ...

Maureen Dowd on the Professor Gates/Officer Crowley affair: President Obama was right the first time, that the encounter had a stupid endin...

Discontent is to the soul as a disease is to the body: it puts it out of temper and greatly hinders its regular and sublime motions heavenwa...

This is from 2007, but it speaks to our current debate about health care reform. No one has the nerve to brand this country’s purest systems...

In my review of Public Enemies I mentioned the moments of leisurely serenity that make Heat (1995) an atypical cops and robbers movie. Mic...