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W. Scott Lamb

W. Scott Lamb

slamb@123washingtontimes.com

W. Scott Lamb is an author of biographies, literary agent and Baptist preacher. A native of St. Louis (go Cardinals!), he lives on a Tennessee hill outside of Nashville with his wife and six kids. Readers may email him at wscottlamb@gmail.com.

Articles by W. Scott Lamb

W. SCOTT LAMB: Doug Wilson explains ‘American Jesus’

Wilson writes: "Patriotism, rightly developed, is a duty that falls under the fifth commandment. I am to honor my father and mother, and this extends beyond them in such a way as to include my people, my tribe. Ordinary and ordered patriotism is not just okay; it is a duty, one that needs to be cultivated."

January 13, 2016
McKay Coppins and his new book, The Wilderness

W. SCOTT LAMB: McKay Coppins’ book paints the pre-2016 GOP landscape

Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading McKay Coppins' new book, "The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House." Coppins, senior political writer at BuzzFeed News, serves up a dish of anecdotes and analyses that comes from interviewing a ton (300-plus, according to Coppins) of political insiders and operatives.

January 4, 2016
Calvin, Hobbes, and Jonathan Edwards (mashup created by Scott Lamb)

Matthew Everhard introduces us to Jonathan Edwards’ resolutions

Jonathan Edwards wrote the resolutions when he was completing his formal education and transitioning into his vocational life as a pastor. It is stunning to consider that he began this list at the age of just 19. He completed them in his early twenties and returned to them on a weekly basis as part of his regular prayer and devotional life. The 70 Resolutions display a very profound view of one's life lived intentionally and purposefully for the glory of God, and all seventy consider life from the perspective of eternity. Some are sweet. Others are jarring.

January 1, 2016
The Annunciation, by Henry Tanner

W. SCOTT LAMB: The Annunciation by Henry Tanner

Tanner clothes Mary in simple peasant fabric and places her in a room with rough-hewn stone flooring and ugly, cracked plaster. Even the vase in the background is of the common ceramic variety with no adornment. While other artists depict Gabriel coming to Mary while she is reading, thus showing her industry, intellect, and piety, Tanner's Mary seems to have been doing nothing--just sitting on her bed. Look closely and you will even see her bare toes. How shocking!

December 24, 2015
Ken Graves, Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Bangor, Maine.

W. SCOTT LAMB: Christian pastors take varying views on concealed-carry guns

Our duty to spread the gospel, however, does not mean that we have a Christian duty to allow them to come to our homes and take our daughters as slaves, or for them to enter our churches and prematurely dispatch to Heaven our brothers and sisters or their children. In that situation, I for one -- while not called to hate or to avenge -- am called to defend. And to defend violently, if necessary.

December 24, 2015