D.A. Carson lecture series on the book of Hebrews

http://apolojet.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/teds-lecture-series-d-a-carson-on-the-book-of-hebrews/

Kindle Finds

Colin Kruse, Paul's Letter To the Romans $2.99
Greg Koukl, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions $1.99
N.T. Wright, Surprised By Hope $1.99
John Calvin, Institutes $0.99
Ravi Zacharias, Walking From East To West $1.99

30 Suggestions For Theological Students & Young Theologians

http://apolojet.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/30-suggestions-for-theological-students-and-young-theologians/

Did Disney Help Kill a Goddess?

http://www.rereform.com/2013/07/09/did-disney-help-kill-a-goddess/

Modern Manliness and the Perpetual State of Low Expectations

http://acculturated.com/2013/02/14/modern-manliness-and-the-perpetual-state-of-low-expectations/#.UUcd2XvKJPc.twitter

2 buck (and under) ebooks

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

Simply Jesus by N.T. Wright

The Complete Works of George MacDonald

Phantastes by George MacDonald

The G.K. Chesterton Collection, 34 books

assortment of books by Timothy Keller

On Grace and Free Will by St. Augustine

Summa Theologica (complete and unabridged) by Thomas Aquinas

The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers

On The Incarnation by Athanasius

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen

The Westminster Confession of Faith

Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

Reading

"What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?"
~Jamie Smith

Is Homeschooling a fundamental right?

http://www.manofthewest.net/blog/2013/02/is-homeschooling-a-fundamental-right-the-us-government-doesnt-think-so.html

Triablogue: A simple prolife argument

Triablogue: A simple prolife argument: Are people valuable because we value them? Or do we value people because they are valuable? Do people have intrinsic value or extrinsic val...

13 Books by C.S. Lewis in 2013

I've set a rather meager goal of reading 13 C.S. Lewis books in 2013. Since the activity of reading is still such a challenge, regardless of available time, I decided to do a close reading of books by an author I enjoy on topics of personal interest in order to help me be a more diligent and intelligent reader.

8 of 13.

Surprised by Joy
The Four Loves
Till We Have Faces
Miracles
Mere Christianity
God in the Dock
An Experiment in Criticism
Reflections on the Psalms
The Abolition of Man
The Problem of Pain
The Weight of Glory
The Great Divorce
The Pilgrim's Regress

Quote of the week: Augustine, Confessions

For it is one thing to see the land of peace from a wooded ridge . . . and another to tread the road that leads to it.

~Augustine, Confessions, VII, xxi

Starting 2013 at one of my favorite places.

C.S. Lewis ebook special

C. S. Lewis's classic Space Trilogy available for a limited time, you can get all three e-books for just $1.99 each and The Screwtape Letters for $3.99!

http://harperonebooks.com/2012/12/12/from-now-until-1113-you-can-get-the-enhanced-e-book-edition-of-c-s-lewiss-the-screwtape-letters-for-3-99/#

C.S. Lewis: Xmas and Christmas

I recently read a lovely bit of satire by C.S. Lewis published in his book God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics and titled Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus. It is about the holiday traditions of the people on the island of Niatirb (Britain spelled backwards).

I also found posted online here. (I'm unfamiliar with the linked to blog and so can't endorse what is said there and I'm pretty sure they violated the copyrights by posting it there, but at least now you can read it too :)

"They had their entire lives ahead of them"

http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/12/they-had-their-entire-lives-ahead-of.html

Why Beauty Matters: Roger Scruton: Update

Quote of the Week: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, Boston: Houghton Mifflin (published 1987), "Strider", ISBN 0-395-08254-4 

Kenneth Samples' Books, Lectures

Over the last few years I have benefited greatly from reading and listening to some of the work of Ken Samples.  

Samples is the author of several books including Without A Doubt: Answering The Twenty Toughest Faith Questions, A World of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test and his latest, 7 Truths That Changed the World.

Bio: 

http://www.reasons.org/about/who-we-are/kenneth-samples

Lectures by Ken at Christ Reformed Church: 

http://christreformedinfo.org/kenneth-samples-lectures/

Quote of the week: C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays in Theology and Ethics

Whether it's politics or apologetics, I try to immitate Lewis and the Socratics who are concerned about following an argument where it leads, not about judging our opponents, or persuading them. Which is why I rarely listen to political speeches and edit out of my FB news feed those folks who incessantly post memes--the worst form of argumentation--and especially so during an election year.

“In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university, there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into coteries where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumor that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other groups can say. In the Socratic all this was changed. Here a man could get the case for Christianity without all the paraphernalia of pietism and the case against it without the irrelevant sansculottisme of our common anti-God weeklies. At the very least we helped to civilize one another; sometimes we ventured to hope that if our Athenian patron were allowed to be present, unseen, at our meetings he might not have found the atmosphere wholly alien.”

-C.S. Lewis, commenting on the Oxford Socratic Club in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

Happy 75th Birthday to The Hobbit!

http://booksbycslewis.blogspot.com/2012/09/happy-75th-birthday-to-hobbit.html

The Unique Struggle of Same-Sex Attraction

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/09/13/the-unique-struggle-of-same-sex-attraction/

Jesus Christ and Isaac Newton: Evidence that the English Physicist Never Existed

Apparently on FB recently there's been a meme making the rounds that attempts to discredit the historical Christian account of Jesus Christ by drawing parallels to the story of Mithra. In response, Rob Bowman made this historically accurate parody to demonstrate the faulty reasoning behind the meme:

http://www.religiousresearcher.org/2012/09/05/jesus-christ-and-isaac-newton-evidence-that-the-english-physicist-never-existed/

Quote of the week: C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”

- C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

Losing the Moral High Ground

http://michaeljkruger.com/losing-the-moral-high-ground/

HT: Triablogue