The Elect by John McWhorter — partial-book review, and it’s not about Calvinism

John McWhorter is a linguist and an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. I heavily cited his work earlier when previewing Voddie Baucham's Fault Lines and discussing McWhorter's contention that the word "Antiracism," referring to the new woke religion of critical race theory, ought to be capitalized as a proper noun. …

Did They Know Jesus Yet? A Textual Criticism Case Study in John 14:7

For those of you who are tracking the release of the Legacy Standard Bible — the real, actual successor to the NASB 1995 — there's an interesting change in John 14:7 that's more textual criticism than translation. Let's take a look. LSB NASB 1995 John 14:6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and …

Jesus and John Wayne (book review)

Kristin Kobes Du Mez (pronounced "doo may") is a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, she lays out a seventy-five-year history of evangelical culture with an aim towards explaining the cultural rise of Donald …

Fault Lines by Voddie Baucham (book review)

Author's note (02 August 2021): I have become aware of Joel McDurmon's credible accusations of misquotation and plagiarism in Fault Lines. My own independent investigation into the misquotation issue confirms Baucham's misquotation of CRT scholar Richard Delgado on page xvi. I furthermore find — in agreement with McDurmon — that this was not merely a matter …

You Will Be Like ‘Gods’?: Genesis 3:5 and Mormonism (re-post)

The following post originally appeared on Things Above Us in October 2019. A good friend in the ministry recently raised a question she was asked by someone else concerning Genesis 3:5 in the context of a conversation with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and it's a very good one. In this …

“Antiracism” Deserves a Capital Letter: A Preview of Voddie Baucham’s Fault Lines

Note: The full review is now published. Recently on Twitter, a Ph.D. student at a Southern Baptist seminary threw shade at Voddie Baucham's upcoming book Fault Lines for many flaws such as "commitment to innuendo," riling up a "populist mob," and lacking integrity. He went so far as to criticize Baucham and his publisher for …

2 Peter 1 in the Legacy Standard Bible

With the full text of the LSB New Testament now available, we have an opportunity for the first time to look through how the translation handles one of the catholic (general) epistles. I've sought to explain every change in 2 Peter 1 in this post. LSB NASB 1995 head Growth in Christian Virtue Precious and …

Extrabiblical Revelation: Being Chained to the Ocean Floor (repost)

Here's a repost from August of 2018, back in the infancy of Things Above Us, that we think might encourage you today. Here in the DFW area, much has been made lately concerning Matt Chandler of The Village Church having encouraged his congregation(s) to seek extrabiblical revelation in the form of visual images. I thought …

Accordance-fu(n) with the Legacy Standard Bible

This post is edited from its original version. See comment from Rick Mansfield below. The Legacy Standard Bible app for iOS and Android is out, but it's not exactly a standalone app. It's really a repackaged version of Accordance 13. If you've already purchased Accordance, you can go to their web page and "purchase" the …

Manga Messiah (children’s book review)

Manga Messiah is the first to be published in a series of manga books that covers the narrative biblical canon. Manga Messiah in particular is a harmonization of the Gospels, starting with the birth story in Luke and ending with Acts 1:8, John 20:30; 21:25. The other books in the series are Manga Mutiny, Manga Melech ("king" …