“This covenant is variously styled, from one or other of these several elements. Thus, it is called the ‘covenant of works,’ because perfect obedience was its condition, and to distinguish it from the covenant of grace, which rests our salvation on a different basis altogether. It is also called the ‘covenant of life.’ because life …
Truth and Laughter
“The truth of the gospel leads inexorably to laughter. Those who want to glower as they cling to truth want something that can never be. Whatever it is they have in their hands, it must not be the truth, unless it is perhaps just a fragment of it. The dour Calvinist, the cranky sabbatarian, and …
Christmas 2004
INTRODUCTION: On a number of different occasions, we have considered the importance of having our times and seasons defined in relation to Jesus Christ. The only alternative to this is to have them defined in reference to someone or something else, and this is obviously an unacceptable alternative to all faithful Christians. Jesus Christ really …
Foundations of Marriage V
INTRODUCTION: In this season of Advent, we are preparing ourselves for a celebration of the Incarntion of the eternal Logos, in which the eternally begotten Son of God became the son of Mary, and, through her, a genuine son of Adam. We are also considering the impact of this truth on our marriages TEXT: “. …
Rejecting the Numinous Gods
“Our idea of holiness is greatly truncated today; we limit it in thousands of scrupling and schoolmarmish ways. We have lost any understanding of the numinous. We do not know what it would be like to walk through a grove of ancient trees sacred to the holy and terrible gods, and then be converted to …
Feminist Misogyny
I just recently finished reading Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven Rhoads. Certain irritating features of the book have to be discounted, like his ongoing evolutionary assumptions, but in the main the book is a dispassionate and careful look at what everybody in the history of the world has always known, until the feminists of …
Birds of a Feather
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 27 The dividing line between right and wrong is a thick, black one. If we were supposed to stay away from factory-processed foods, music with a back beat, bee pollen, classrooms with desks, home education, wine, beer, or spirits, then …
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
One of the exercises I have employed over the years in the study of history is the practice of trying to “take sides.” But this requires explanation because there is a sense in which such a practice is incoherent. All of us are shaped by our culture and upbringing in such a way and to …
Yeah, Uh Huh Faith
John Robbins says the following, in an ostensible defense of Protestant orthodoxy. Gordon Clark apparently closed the back door “through which much of this Neolegalism has entered the churches: the notions that saving faith is different from belief, and more than belief, and that it is ‘commitment’ as well” (The Current Justification Controversy, p. 74). …
Paleo Spear-Dane
In a recent letter to the editor of a far away newspaper, Nick Gier wrote, “Wilson claims that he is not a neo-Confederate, but . . .” Since we are dealing with refried charges, let me serve up a helping of refried answers to charges. Here is what I said about the charge of neo-Confederacy …