Karen Swallow Prior—professor of English at Liberty University and the author of Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist—wrote the foreword for historian Michael Haykin’s new book, Eight Women of Faith (Crossway, 2016):

Genesis 2 tells us that God created a garden with

Matthew Franck—Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Radford University in Virginia, and Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute—argues that “it is wrong to think of a vote not cast for Leading Contender A as a de facto&nb

Ernie Johnson Jr. is at the top of his game as a sportscaster for Turner Sports and CBS Sports—the lead TV voice for Major League Baseball (TBS), the host of Inside the NBA (TNT), and a contributor to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament (Turner and CBS).

He is also a faithful Christian and a father who has adopted children,

Reviewing this movie at Revive Our Hearts, Joni Eareckson Tada (who has lived with quadriplegia for over three decades) writes:

I have nothing but disdain for the “you’re better off dead than disabled” message in Me Before You. It can’t help but have a negative impact on young, impressionable moviegoers who already have

Here is one of the most important points that Mortimer Adler makes in his ironically titled book, How to Read a Book:

Every author has had the experience of suffering book reviews by critic who did not feel obligated to do the work of the first two stages first. The critic too often thinks he does not have to be a reader as well as a judge.

Ever

Rod Dreher writes:

This is amazing. Barronelle Stutzman is the Washington florist sued by a gay man, a friend and client of almost a decade, who was outraged by her refusal to do the flowers for his same-sex wedding. Whatever you think you know about her case, I bet you don’t know a lot of things in that short three-minute video.

From our friends at Humble Beast, which also has a new resource available called Daddy Issues:

With 7,000 women arriving in Indianapolis today for The Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference (you can see the schedule and livestream it), I thought I’d mention seven books by women (or co-authored/co-edited by women) that Crossway has published so far this year.

Gloria Furman, Missional Motherhood: The Everyday Ministry of

This is a thoughtful, careful, and important talk from Andrew Wilson of Kings Church in Eastbourne in the UK:

Or audio:

Andrew is asking the question here: “How should we respond to people whose experience of their gender doesn’t fit with their biological sex? Or who have taken measures to change it? Or whose biological sex is unclear?

J. D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, writes:

Yesterday the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention voted for president of the SBC. And then, because it was too close to call, they voted again. That was too close, too. So this morning, we were all prepared to vote a third time.

That third vote

I love the ministry of Bifrost Arts. One of their burdens is to help the church learn to lament like Jesus.

For example, here is a liturgy they have written:

Leader: The peace of the Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Leader: The Lord scatters His enemies; they are blown away as smoke, melted as wax before the fire. But the righteous

Seventy-five years ago tomorrow C.S. Lewis ascended the pulpit at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford and delivered “The Weight of Glory,” one of the most insightful sermons of the twentieth century.

Tomorrow morning at the new Evangelical History blog I will give a historical overview of that

As a follow-up to the post on Tozer vs. Lewis on the most important thing about us, here is a thought from J. I. Packer:

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands [Isa. 49:16]. I am never out

I am happy to announce a new blog venture at The Gospel Coalition entitled “Evangelical History,” which will be run by Thomas Kidd and me.

You can go over to the new blog and read Dr. Kidd’s introductory post. He writes:

What do we mean by “evangelical history”? Justin and I both have broad interests in the history of

A. W. Tozer:

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the

Crossway has just published two 600-page volumes, years in the making, that should find a place on every pastor’s bookshelf:

• A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the Old Testament: The Gospel Promised, edited by Miles Van Pelt, and 
• A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the New Testament: The Gospel Realized, edited by Michael

That’s the question raised by Ron Giese in the latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature: Ronald L. Giese Jr., “‘Iron Sharpens Iron’ as a Negative Image: Challenging the Common Interpretation of Proverbs 27:17,” JBL 135, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 61-76.

Here is a portion of the abstract:

Proverbs