Posts by Don Johnson
The World Tells Us How It Really Feels
The recent display at the Paris Olympics stirred up a lot of controversy. Conservative sites are outraged (see here and here), liberal sites are bemused and the event’s creator is defensive. At least some on the Paris organizing committee are feeling the heat, since they offered a “non-apology apology.” The event reminded me of 1…
Read MoreAccepting God’s Providence
We all live in historic times. Often, the significance of daily events flows over us. That is, we easily dismiss the seemingly usual course of affairs as “ordinary times,” yet later historians will mark many of our events as significant elements of the changes we are living through, creating a new era which will affect…
Read MoreSummit Report (FBFI 2024)
I have returned home after a crazy week of travel, conference activities, and more travel at the end. Living on an island always adds an extra wrinkle to my travel plans, but never extra convenience. Nonetheless, the 103rd meeting of the Foundations Baptist Fellowship International, held at Tri-City Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado was well…
Read MoreAyaan Hirsi Ali takes on Richard Dawkins over New Atheism – UnHerd
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has said that she regrets her role in the New Atheism movement, as part of a Saturday debate with Richard Dawkins. At the inaugural Dissident Dialogues conference in New York, Ali said that she now feels she was wrong to conflate Christianity with Islam when she was an atheist. “I do regret…
Read More8 Ways We Normalize the Abnormal | Crossway Articles
God has made it clear that the norm for his children should be love. It is the thing that the listening and watching world should know us for. We should be recognized not only for the purity of our theology but also for the consistency of our love. This love is the new commandment that…
Read MoreDavid’s Attitude towards Money
At the end of David’s life, both in 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles we find catalogues of his preparations for the temple Solomon would build. The riches David accumulated for the task are laid out, the charge is given to Solomon and the people, so that they would get busy with the task before them.…
Read MoreIt Is Not Good for Man to be Alone
The Lord uttered these words in Genesis 2.18. The next step in the Creation story is the creation of the woman to be with the man. God made us as social creatures. We need time with other people, and we don’t do well in isolation. We all learned this in the “recent unpleasantness.” An article…
Read MoreLife and Books and Everything – Where Have All the Fundamentalists Gone? | RSS.com
With two smart British historians—one from Oxford (Andrew) and one from Aberystwyth (David)–and one curious American pastor (Kevin), you might say that this episode puts the “fun” back in fundamentalism. How did fundamentalism become a pejorative putdown? Are evangelicals and fundamentalists really all that different? What is a fundamentalist anyway? And, to paraphrase Harry Emerson…
Read MorePodcast: Interview 23, Mike Riley – The Art of Appreciating Beauty
Our post today points you to our Substack where we host the Proclaim & Defend podcast. As you may already know, we use the podcast to promote our magazine, FrontLine. We think the content is consistently good and well worth your reading. At the podcast, we try to interview as many of the authors of…
Read MorePutting the Christian Message in Print (or Pixels)
One sayes well; That Sermons Preached, are like Showers of Rains that Water for the Instant – But Sermons Printed, are like Snow that lies longer on the Earth. God grant that the Truths falling from Heaven, in this Form, this Winter upon our Neighbours, May Soak into their Hearts, with a Sensible and a…
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