“All the art of the poet is used to make the cadences of the language appropriate to the high seriousness of the thoughts expressed. That high dogma can be poetry is inconceivable to some, but there are plenty of examples–T.S. Eliot’s introduction to The Wasteland, for one” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of …
Women and the Destiny of Nations
“A woman who was related to the leaders in that society necessarily had far more influence than a man who occupied a more lowly station. When Bathsheba made a petition to David concerning her son Solomon, she was exercising far more influence than the average stablehand in the royal stables. When Esther interceded on behalf …
Solemn Remembrance
“Worship is a memorial or remembrace of the saving acts of God on which the covenant relationship is based” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. II, p. 232).
Pumping Their Own Gas and Stuff
There are two kinds of secularism. Well, at least two — or at least two that I am willing to talk about this morning. We are more accustomed to one of these, the one that refers to the functional godlessness of our public affairs. The secular state for us is that which has enshrined agnosticism …
An Arched Eyebrow Problem
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #24 “For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to …
Calvinism, Eschatology, and the New Media
Jesus is the Lord of history, and this is why we don’t need to be afraid of Twitter. Or Facebook. Or teenagers typing with their thumbs. Jesus is the Lord of history, which is why we don’t need to worry about Google making us stupid. Don’t mistake me. Google does make many of us stupid, …
Something Very Different
“Antiochene exegesis rejected allegory, but it did not reject typology because it recognized that something very different is at work in typology. The Antiochene School was well aware that the New Testament itself used typology and therefore had no problem using it when it clearly was already in the text” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reaching …
A Life of Insecurity
“Women who demand independence of this kind of familial masculinity are like a plant demanding independence from the soil. The effect is to uproot them, bringing in a life of insecurity, propped up here and there by reassurances from a thoughtful therapist and the regulations of some federal agency” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 114).
Priests With Spears
It has been 35 years now, and when Nancy and I were first together we decided that if we had anything to work through, we would do it together. We determined that we would not ever share any problem with outsiders unless it was by mutual consent, and it was for the purpose of getting …
Now the Month After Next
I have mentioned this web site for the Logos benefit concert before, and have promised periodic updates and introduction. Well, here is one. Tom Garfield, the superintendent of Logos, has brought his drumsticks out of retirement in order to jump into a few songs. Look under Special Guests. Jay Niemeyer, a Logos dad, is the …