“If a man wants a garden full of weeds, he does not need to do a thing. And if a church wants its lampstand removed, in a fallen world, all that is necessary is a little more standing around”
The Cultural Mind, p. 116
That’s Nice
All Connected
“Christians are people of the Word, and as a result they are people of words. We love the Truth, and this is why we must necessarily love truths. The flip side of this is that when a love for the Lord Jesus declines, one of the first places it manifests itself is in an obvious contempt for words. Words become little lumps of neutral clay on which a dishonest heart can exercise its creativity. But the real source of this rebellion in the little things, and the final direction of it, is hostility to the ultimate Word”
The Cultural Mind, p. 115
Judges Running Around Loose
“And so the Constitution must be kept around to provide the smell of a hoary antiquity, while a relativistic hermeneutic is slapped on to provide judges with the untrammeled liberty of doing whatever they want.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 113
The Rosetta Stone of the Sexes
Dear Darla, I want to spend at least a little bit of time talking about the nature of the differences between men and women. This is important because we have something of an optical illusion going, and it runs in both directions. If you were to travel to a foreign land, but one suitably exotic, …
The Eve of Battle
“Hermeneutics, the art and science of interpretation, sounds like a horribly dusty affair. And, of course, some have handled the subject along those lines. That is not how it should be; when the question of how a text is to be interpreted arises, we should feel a leaden weight in the gut and adrenaline in the veins, as men feel before a battle.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 111
Letters in the Dog Days of August
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for your article on Crossway. I receive their emails, and when I saw the Jen Oshman article I thought, “hmm . . . that has not been my observation the last ...
Crossway at a Crossroads
Introduction: Let us begin by saying that I don't know who made the meme, but I thought that it was one of the funniest things I had seen for quite some time. And I have heard, but have not confirmed, ...
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Everything’s a Trade-off
Not Supposed to Work
“All secular idolatries must totter and fall. This is a wonderful part of the hope found in the biblical worldview—that in the long run, stupidity never works.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 108