I just received my copy of Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo, edited by Bruce Benson and Peter Heltzel (with a Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff and an Afterword by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri). It’s an eclectic, big tent collection, since it includes an essay like Jim Wallis’ “Dangerous Religion: George…
Christianity Today has finally posted my brief review of D.A. Carson’s latest book, Christ and Culture Revisited. They asked me to be charitable and constructive; this was the best I could do I’m afraid. I also managed to exercise some self-discipline and not say a word about Carson’s critique of me in the book. I’m…
I never have been, and never could be, a fan of the Republican Party. However, I have become very sympathetic to elements of a classic conservatism that one finds, say, in Edmund Burke. I’ve been pressed there by a sense of the need to submit to Catholicity. Where I continue to demur concerns whether a…
[This article appeared in the April 2008 issue of First Things; since it takes a few months for articles to become available for free online, I thought I’d here point to it.] Over the past decade, Pentecostalism has become something of an academic darling for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of religious studies. Researchers ensconced…
As a Canadian living the States for a dozen years now, I have found that I’ve never quite shaken the Canadian penchant for understatement–which is just a backhanded way of saying I’ve never warmed up the to gargantuan hype that characterizes so many facets of American life, which all look “Texan” from a Canadian perspective….
Someone had told me that they thought the feed for my other blog, What I’m Reading, was not working properly. I hope that’s now been corrected, but just in case, I’ll here post periodic updates to point those who might be interested over there. Recent reviews include James Wood, How Fiction Works, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary,…