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I’ll be away from the blog for a little while, focusing on family during this time. I appreciate your continued prayers for my wife and mother-in-law.

Podcast:

  • Brandon Smith and I released a new episode of Word Matters, answering the question “Did Jesus spend the night in hell?” from 1 Peter 3. You can subscribe to the podcast here: iTunes | Android | RSS
  • I was a guest on the Established Church podcast to talk about Bible translations. You can listen here.

Kindle Deal: The Mingling of Souls: God’s Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption by Matt Chandler. $2.99.

Seven of the best articles I came across this week:

1. Peter Lawler – Conservative Postmodernism, Postmodern ConservatismA worthwhile essay that considers the current cultural moment for conservatives. Conservative postmodernism, by acknowledging and affirming as good what we can really know about our natural possibilities and limitations, is radically opposed to liberated postmodernism—and to the modern premises it radicalizes.

2. Jen Pollock Michel – Why Homesickness Is HealthNostalgia may have disappeared from our medical dictionaries, but we haven’t cured the ache for home. To be human is to know the grief of some paradise lost.

3. Derek Rishmawy – A Note on Biography, Theology, and Ad HominemA needed word in a day when it becomes more difficult to debate ideas because of fear of offending someone personally.

4. J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis went to see Snow White together, and they both hated the dwarves. Here’s the story.

5. Jamie Dean – New Convictions. A report on why the criminal justice system needs reform and how some Christians are engaging in the process.

6. Brandon Smith – The Dearth of Patristic Theology in EvangelicalismAside from a few notable contributions by evangelicals, the field is mostly dominated by Catholic theologians and the occasional non-evangelical Protestant. This needs to change.

7. Nika Mavrody – The Dangers of Reading in BedI had no idea that reading in bed was considered controversial for a long time!

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