Donald T. Williams
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Getting Rid of Conversion?
D. G. Hart’s essay “The Evangelical Narrative: Getting Rid of the Church” (Modern Reformation, November/December 2008) is an insightful study of the nature of evangelicalism and its relationship to Reformation Christianity, and an incisive critique of what Hart sees as evangelicalism’s resulting weakness in ecclesiology and approach to ministry. I find Hart’s history plausible, his […]
“For the Sake of the Story”
No modern writer has gotten more Christian truth into more heads than C. S. Lewis. His works of popular apologetics are full of clarity, insight, and good sense; his fiction glows with high imagination and wholesome wisdom. No one is better at showing us the contours of the Christian worldview in all their sanity and […]
Optimism, Pessimism, and Hope
I am a Southerner. Lost causes don’t bother me. We are used to them. And ours is not even lost-at least, not in the long run. In the short run, I am not very optimistic for our society or for the church. We as a society are trying to maintain our democracy while dismantling its […]
Prince Caspian
It was disappointing that the movie version of C. S. Lewis’s second chronicle of Narnia, Prince Caspian, did not stick as close to the story as that of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. There may not have been more scenes made up out of whole cloth and gratuitously inserted, but the ones which […]
Review of “I Am Legend”
This is not a flick to see lightly for entertainment. A genetically engineered virus that was supposed to cure cancer wipes out 90% of the human race instead, and turns most of the rest into mutated, rabid, aggressive, vicious, and very hungry monsters who only come out at night. Will Smith is a medical researcher […]
