Monthly Archives: May 2011
Don’t Waste Your College: An Essay on Adolescence
The American college experience occupies a vaunted place in the mind of many an adolescent. College, overworked high schoolers assure themselves, will be a place of freedom, experimentation, video games, and goofing off. And that’s just in class. The system … Continue reading
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The Gay Basketball Star and an Emerging Cultural Narrative
If you’re a sports fan, did you see the news about former Villanova Wildcats basketball player Will Sheridan coming out of the closet? And the stories about Phoenix Suns President and CEO Rick Welts revealing the same? Whether you like … Continue reading
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John Piper, Don Carson, and Transformed Pastors and Scholars
There’s a great deal of interest right now in what some have called the pastor-theologian and theologian-pastor movement. John Piper and D. A. Carson are two of the more prominent faces of each of these enhanced ministerial vocations. I recently … Continue reading
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Want $66,000 a Year? Write Papers for Students! (Ethics Optional)
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released a chilling story that you should know about. The CHI piece is called “The Shadow Scholar” and it’s authored by a paper mill writer under the name of “Ed Dante.” You can read the whole … Continue reading
Really Important Things: The Debacle That Was Danny Ainge’s Dealmaking
The Boston Celtics aren’t that important. So this blog isn’t actually about something really important. Really important things include, for example, the birth of a new boy in my family. My son is named Gavin Edwards Strachan. He joined us … Continue reading
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The Cornerback Who Was Killed, the SI Writer Who Is a Gordon Grad
Do you read long-form journalism? You should. There’s pressure today to make journalism short, to squeeze all such writing into bullet points and text boxes. Surely there’s a place for that. But there’s a massive place for journalists who take … Continue reading
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Fresh New Books: Trevin Wax on Counterfeit Gospels
I love book dedications, you know, the few words at the very beginning of a text that record in whose honor the manuscript was written. Books are such an obsession for me that I don’t just love the main body, … Continue reading
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Jonathan Edwards on Hell
I recently had the privilege to sit down with Dustin Neeley of Church Planting for the Rest of Us to talk about several topics that will be released on video, including Jonathan Edwards on hell. The above video covers how … Continue reading
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Turn the Lights Back On–A Blog Reawakening
It’s been a while. But it’s time to come back. Turn the lights back on. This blog has never been about my personal life, and it’s not going to be. But in resuming blogging, I will say this: it has … Continue reading
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