What words are in you that can change the world?
[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.
Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.
I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.
[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.
I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers are read. That is a real boon, and it is something I think every scholar or writer can benefit from.
[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know that old theory, "trickle-down economics". That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.