In honor of Reformation Day (and on the heels of another viewing of Luther) I post this writing, titled Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil. This writing is one of (if not the) last works of Martin Luther published before his death. From the opening line (The Most Hellish Father, St. Paul [...]

Reading through the normal news sites today produced two items I found to be of greater interest than the others. I post (and comment) in the hopes that you’ll find them interesting as well. 1. Sheryl Swoopes reveals that she is a lesbian to ESPN. It has been a while since I’ve blogged on something [...]

If you are searching for some good reading out on the world wide web then please allow me to submit these items for your consideration. I trust you will find them satisfying: 1. My good friend at Theologia Viatorum has provided a lengthy post on the nature and extent of Covenantal Theology here. He’s looking [...]

I hope you took time to read the article I linked to in my last post. If you did, this post should make more sense for you. While reading the article I was struck by the cold, mechanic nature of Peter Singer‘s philosophy/worldview. To refresh your memory let me offer what Colson wrote in the [...]

Christianity Today‘s current issue contains an excerpt from Charles Colson’s new book The Good Life. CT has made that excerpt available (for free, always nice) on their website and I’d like to encourage you to read it when you get a chance. I’ve got to be brief right now but I’ll add some thoughts that [...]

As a Southern Baptist in the lovely state of Tennessee I am also part of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. For those unfamiliar, the first is the national convention and the second the state version. Now, as a member of both bodies, I feel obligated to be concerned and active in the matters that affect each. [...]

Please take a moment after reading this to pray for Bill Ninis and the rest of the Ninis family. Some of you know that Bill has been struggling with Leukemia and he is now in what appears to be the last stages of that struggle. My wife informed me that he is in a great [...]

What did you do today? Sleep in? Catch up on some reading? Watch some of the great college football games that took place? I personally worked a library conference. Sounds like a party, huh? Whatever it was, while you were busy doing your thing, Knoxville, TN was witness to Come Out Knoxville, a celebration of [...]

My friend David emailed me two links recently that he thought might interest me (and my blog readers.) The links concern the findings of Gregory Paul in a study on the connection between religious belief and societal health published in the Journal of Relgion and Society. The study attempts to invalidate the belief that an [...]

Sorry for the delay in updating. I plan to write a more lengthy post tomorrow but in the meantime I thought I’d share two items in the news that grabbed my attention: