Archive for January 2012
Bloodlines
Does the gospel impact how we think of people of other racial and ethnic groups? John Piper, in his recent book, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian, argues that it does. Andrew Wencl writes in his review, I was born in the 1980s. My generation has grown up in an increasingly diverse and integrated America…
Read MoreScripture in the Family Room
By Matthew Barrett – “Daddy, I want you to read me the Bible.” These are the words that I hear at about 8:30am when my three year old daughter Cassandra and I sit down for a bowl of our favorite cereal. I wish I could say that this breakfast tradition originated out of the depths…
Read MoreWe Are Giving Away Three Crossway Books!
Only one week left until the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone,” releases. This week we are giving away three books from Crossway. To find out which ones and to enter to win go here.
Read MoreHow Evolution Undermines the Judeo-Christian Sanctity-of-Life Ethic
By Richard Weikart – [Editor’s Note: This is the second of three articles by Richard Weikart. Read part 1: How Evolution Challenges Christian Ethics, by Richard Wikart.] Peter Singer, one of the most influential bioethicists in the world today, is famous for supporting abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, especially for the disabled. He has written many…
Read MoreMichael A.G. Haykin on the Church Fathers, Postmodernism, Christian Scholarship, and Piety
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, Michael A.G. Haykin, professor of church history and biblical spirituality at Southern Seminary, and Aaron Cline Hanbury, managing editor of “Towers,” discuss Haykin’s newest book, Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church. Haykin explains the necessity of exploring the piety, evangelism and scholarship of the…
Read MoreThis Week’s Book Giveaways: Three Crossway Books!
Only one week left until the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone,” releases. This week we are giving away three books from Crossway. To find out which ones and to enter to win go here.
Read MoreHow Evolution Challenges Christian Ethics
By Richard Weikart – In 1995, while working on my book From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (2004), I taught a seminar at my university on “Evolution, Religion, and Society.” As we discussed Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism by the philosopher James Rachels, two students insisted that…
Read MoreHip-Hop Redemption
Can Christians listen to or even sing hip-hop? Are there qualities in hip-hop that are redeemable? Is there something we can learn from the history of hip-hop? Nate Wood seeks to address these questions and many others in his review of Hip-Hop Redemption: Finding God in the Rhythm and Rhyme, by Ralph Basui Watkins. Nate…
Read MoreGreat Quotes from Owen’s Communion with the Triune God
By Tim Raymond – In my last post, I enumerated my favorite books from 2011 and stated that the best book I read this last year was Communion with the Triune God by John Owen (1616-1683). This book has become not only my very favorite from 2011, but one of the most significant books I…
Read MoreIt Ain’t Necessarily So – Part 2
By Paul Helm – [view part 1] So although Calvin does not employ the apparatus of alternative possible worlds, nor the ’foreknowledge of possibilities’ in the manner of Gomarus, it is clear that Calvin envisages the divine mind as having before it various alternative possible outcomes, no doubt myriads of them. There are alternative outcomes,…
Read MoreThis Week’s Book Giveaways
The last four weeks we have been giving away books in our excitement for the upcoming January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone.” The January issue of Credo, which will be released in just one week, will focus its attention on the exclusivity of the gospel, especially in light of the movement known as…
Read MoreA Long List of Books for 2012 – Part 1
By Matthew Barrett – One of my favorite things about the New Year is looking ahead to all the books that were just released or will be released. Here are some of the books I am looking forward to reading in the New Year. I anticipate that many of these books will be fine reads,…
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