How to Write a Critique as a Thoughtful Christian

By Byron Harvey / April 6, 2010 /

Tim Challies is one of the best Christian bloggers in the business, and this article I offer, not to persuade you one way or the other as to Tim’s position, but to hold it up as a pitch-perfect example of a concerned Christian brother offering a balanced, thoughtful critique. Why John Piper Should Not Have…

What I'd Ask Amy Grant

By Byron Harvey / March 30, 2010 /

Can of worms alert: if you’re not in the mood to get into something that might get uncomfortable, perhaps you’d better go here.  Have a nice day. My daughter’s favorite radio station is The Fish 104.7.  It’s a nice-enough joint, I guess; I listen along sometimes.  I will even play real, real nice and resist…

"Unfriended"

By Byron Harvey / March 29, 2010 /

I got “unfriended” from Facebook the other day—by a guy I consider a friend, and he had the guts to write and tell me why.  An aside before I get into that: I’ve never “unfriended” anybody, but I’ve “friended” people whom I really have to stretch to call “friends”, not that I have anything against…

The Priesthood of the Unbelievable

By Byron Harvey / March 25, 2010 /

Jack Brooks has a great piece on the plague—and that’s not too strong a word at all—of every Tom, Dick, and Benny jumping up and claiming to have “an anointed ministry of God”, simply because he/she deems it to be so and can self-publish the latest “Christian classic” revealing some hitherto unrevealed “truth” of God:…