In February 2007, Michael Horton had the opportunity to interview Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church (Seattle, Washington) and author of The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out (Zondervan, 2004). This interview was originally broadcast on March 11, 2007 on The White Horse Inn radio program. To hear the entire interview online, go […]
The editors of Modern Reformation have kindly asked me to write a bit about my new book Why Johnny Can't Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers (P&R, 2009). The title is a double theft. The "Why Johnny Can't" part is stolen from Rudolph Flesch, Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About […]
How do we cultivate Christian community during days of disease, social distancing, and deeply divided opinions? Unable to gather together for worship, or in some cases even to leave their homes, most Christians have gone online in a desperate attempt to find some sense of fellowship in the body of Christ. Sermons are being live-streamed, […]
Controversies over evolution excite every bit as much passion in the late twentieth century as they have ever done. Christian believers who seek humbly to understand the means by which God directs the natural world as well as honest scientists who seek to deal responsibly with what their researches reveal are regularly shouted aside by […]
When the hero’s identity has been established and he has overcome reluctance to accept his responsibilities, he enters into the dangerous temptations of pride. In the opening voice over of Spider-Man 3 we hear, “It’s me. Peter Parker. Your friendly neighborhood… you know. I’ve come a long way from being the boy who was bit […]
Merold Westphal writes in Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: "It is sometimes said, that one is not prepared to read any serious philosophical text until one has already read it at least once, and there is a lot of truth in this reminder that philosophy, like physics, takes serious, disciplined preparation. There are no cheap seats […]
In Deconstructing Evangelicalism, Presbyterian historian (and contributing scholar to Modern Reformation) D. G. Hart joins both historical argument and theological prescription in his typically iconoclastic fashion. Claiming that the recent resurgence of evangelical history is nothing more than a historical and sociological fiction papering over the differences in the creeds, polity, and worship practices of […]
If anyone had told me that I would one day write an article defending any kind of liturgy, much less something called "Reformed liturgy," I would have politely changed the subject. But here I am, writing that very article and almost giddy with enthusiasm for the project. If the reader will permit a bit of […]
Psychiatrist Keith Ablow joins the chorus of colleagues, as well as sociologists and historians, in a recent online article. The gist: "We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists." He refers to new surveys collected by Dr. Jean Twenge, a psychology professor. Today's college students "are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and […]
Part of the genius of the Pixar animated movies is the oftentimes grim back story that sets the stage for the main characters and their escapades. Consider Pixar's 2008 movie, WALL-E. After decades of over-consumption at the ubiquitous "Buy N Large" stores, the population of Earth is sent cruising on an intergalactic spaceship while robots […]
I'd like to tell you a little bit about the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. It is a little hard to know exactly what to say because we have so many concerns. Years ago I was involved in something very similar to this, called the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, where we also had a council […]
I don’t usually buy devotionals. I find it difficult to stay faithful to one book (apart from the Bible) for a year. But Daily Readings—John Owen, edited by Lee Gatiss, is something entirely different. First, this is the first devotional made up of excerpts of writings by John Owen. It’s a surprising realization, given the […]