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In the July/August issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR), an article describing the modern life of the Bedouin on the Sinai Peninsula states that aged shepherds are skilled at knowing where to find water in the desert (no surprise there), and one weathered nomad even showed the article’s author “how and where to strike a [...]

John R. W. Stott makes the following statement in the final chapter on the topic of conversion in Christian Missions in the Modern World, “We can assert without any fear of contradiction that all the converted are regenerate and all the regenerate are converted.”  Having already established the biblical necessity of conversion despite a modern [...]

“A spasm of the ganglions,” thus does one mid-nineteenth century Cornish priest define conversion, according to John R. W. Stott in his work Christian Missions in the Modern World (p. 110).  Needless to say, that is not a very high view of a biblical doctrine, but Stott contends there are reasons for such disdain to [...]

In the August/September issue of First Things, editor Joseph Bottum pens an insightful article entitled, “The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline“. Besides reading it for Bottum’s excellent prose (of which one of my favorite examples is here), it is interesting to get his take on the spiraling plummet [...]