Category: Columns

“Beyond the Sea”: Darin and Stevens in Key West

E. J. Hutchinson — June 19, 2025

“Beyond the Sea”: Darin and Stevens in Key West

On Bob Dylan, Bobby Darin, and Wallace Stevens.

Allusion without End

E. J. Hutchinson — June 17, 2025

Allusion without End

Political Vergil in domestic Ovid.

The Classical Dylan, Again

E. J. Hutchinson — June 9, 2025

The Classical Dylan, Again

In “Narrow Way,” on the 2012 album Tempest, Bob Dylan sings: You got too many lovers waiting at the wallIf I had a thousand tongues I couldn’t count them allYesterday…

Difference but not Disagreement: A Rejoinder to Kevin DeYoung and James Baird on the 1788 Revisions to the Westminster Confession

Miles Smith — June 9, 2025

Difference but not Disagreement: A Rejoinder to Kevin DeYoung and James Baird on the 1788 Revisions to the Westminster Confession

Rev. Dr. Kevin DeYoung and Rev. James Baird, two teaching elders in the Presbyterian Church in America, have recently carried on a civil but substantive debate on the nature of…

Something Fishy in Colchester

Steven Wedgeworth — June 5, 2025

Something Fishy in Colchester

James Ussher and Samuel Ward were British (Irish and English) theologians and clergymen in the 17th cent. They were good friends and wrote many letters to one another, several of…

Augustine’s Ascent to God Is Also Our Ascent

Wyatt Graham — June 3, 2025

Augustine’s Ascent to God Is Also Our Ascent

Augustine wrote “On the Trinity” partly to guide readers in their knowledge of God. In this pursuit, he self-consciously followed dominical sayings such as, “And this is eternal life, that…

“Calvinism” and the Anglican Way: An Interaction with Bishop Ray Sutton

Steven Wedgeworth — June 2, 2025

“Calvinism” and the Anglican Way: An Interaction with Bishop Ray Sutton

Back in January, Ray Sutton, the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, wrote a lengthy essay on Anglican identity. It began as commentary on a recent book release and…

New Book on Josephus and Jesus

Andrew Koperski — May 30, 2025

New Book on Josephus and Jesus

This is just a short public service announcement drawing attention to T. C. Schmidt’s hot-off-the-digital-presses Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford 2025). An anonymous donation…

Refusing Rebaptism in Dionysius of Alexandria

Andrew Koperski — May 28, 2025

Refusing Rebaptism in Dionysius of Alexandria

After all, what's more important than getting baptism right?

What Does Jesus Mean by “Not my will, but yours be done”?

Wyatt Graham — May 27, 2025

What Does Jesus Mean by “Not my will, but yours be done”?

When Jesus prayed, “not my will, but yours be done” (Matt 26:39), he declared himself to be united in willing redemption with the Father. He did so because he always…