Christian Milk, Christian Cows

If you want a sharp and penetrating criticism of the Christian subculture (aka Christian bubble), you'll want to check out Fearless Faith by John Fischer.  Here's a section of it where Fischer quotes someone who used to work for a major Christian record label in Nashville. "I can tell you exactly when I knew I…

Singing and the Perspicuity of Scripture (II)

Awhile back I argued that we need to update the vocab, syntax, and grammar of our church songs.  We should want our church songs to clearly reflect the teaching of Scripture; keeping the language understandable will help in that endeavor. The basis of these statements is what we in the Reformation tradition call the perspicuity (clarity) of…