St. Petersburg: Monuments to Egotism
Page through Alan Bullock’s biography of Adolf Hitler or or Li Zhishui’s reminiscences of Mao Zedong and you will need no further...
Heading Home…
I’ve been away–from this space, and from my home space–for quite a while. Son Number One and I took a trip celebrating the end of his...
Animal Suffering/Natural Evil before the Fall
This past week, in teaching at Regent and in lecturing at UBC, the same question came up in both contexts: What are we Christians to make...
A Cruise Ship . . . and a Classroom
I’ve just returned from a cruise up the Inside Passage of British Columbia to the Panhandle of Alaska. Professors can’t afford a cruise...


Caption Contest
This is a Very Serious Blog—at least, it is most of the time. But every once in a while, we take a walk outside and have a little fun....
The Implications of a Hotel
I’m working this week in St. Andrews by-the-Sea, a gorgeous little town on the shores of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. The...