The City Summer 2009 Issue Preview

July 7, 2009

The City: Summer 2009
a very model of a modern evangelical
John Mark Reynolds + Francis J. Beckwith
Matthew Lee Anderson
featuring
The Soul & The City + Wilfred McClay
Who Owns Science? + Hunter Baker
Solzhenitsyn & The Future + Peter Augustine Lawler
Obama & Abortion + Robert P. George
A Debate on Marriage + Jonathan Rauch & Joseph Knippenberg
Christ in the Classroom [...]

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Items of Interest: The Joy of the Gospel

June 22, 2009

The sweetest joys and delights I have experienced, have not been those that have arisen from a hope of my own good estate; but in a direct view of the glorious things of the gospel. When I enjoy this sweetness, it seems to carry me above the thoughts of my own safe estate. It seems [...]

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Items of Interest: To Entertain Such Imaginations

June 4, 2009

There were some who dared in the opinion of the multitude to immortalize themselves; and notwithstanding that the very sense of sight bore witness to their mortality, were ambitious to be called gods, and were honoured as such; to what a length of impiety would not many men have proceeded, if death had not gone [...]

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End Times for Christian America?

May 26, 2009

Today we’re happy to reprint a piece on “End Times for Christian America” by HBU’s own Hunter Baker, an assistant professor of government, who is the author of the forthcoming The End of Secularism which is being published by Crossway Books this August.
Christian America is busy dying again.
If you believe some partisan historians, [...]

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Items of Interest: The Love of God

May 19, 2009

Wilt thou love God as he thee? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited on
In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast.
The Father having begot a Son most blest,
And still begetting—for he ne’er begun—
Hath deign’d to choose thee by adoption,
Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath’ endless rest.
And as a [...]

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McClay on Lincoln: The Burden of Leadership

May 5, 2009

Starting this month, Houston Baptist University is hosting a unique traveling museum exhibit, Lee and Grant, on our campus. Organized by the Virginia Historical Society and made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the exhibition provides a comprehensive reassessment of the lives, careers, and historical impact of Civil War [...]

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