Author: Stephen Dawe

  • As many of you dear readers know, I will soon be leaving Canada for a position as a preacher in South Korea. Perhaps it is this coming move that is giving me some courage in letting out my inner conservative (conservatism being slightly less acceptable in Newfoundland than a love for Quebec). But I wonder…

  • That seems to be the opinion of one of my sometime readers. Of course, I think she is mostly right, but as with most determinist  readings of a given series of facts, I think she (like the bias people she refers to) misses a great deal of the situation. I think that honestly it’s both…

  • Moving along in what is often called the 5 points of Calvinism, we come to the question of particular redemption (or what others would call “limited atonement”). This point is basically that Jesus Christ did not come into the world to save everybody, but to reconcile his own people to God. The majority of the…

  • Bible: USA Today prints an article about scriptural authority, Albert Mohler responds. Resurrection: AN Wilson (who wrote the book “Jesus”, claiming that Jesus was a failed revolutionary) seems to have a change of heart. Piracy: A French naval ship captures a Somali pirate ship. U.S. Politics: Former Illinois senator Rod Blagojevich petitions to be allowed…

  • Law: A Quebec father who was successfully sued by his daughter after a grounding loses his appeal before the Quebec Superior Court. Fasting: Christianity Today reviews Scot McKnight’s new book. Piracy: An American Ship was seized by pirates off the coast of Africa. The crew then took back the ship.