This is the outline of remarks I gave to the male students of NSA this afternoon. Here are three things I want to set out with regard to the sins of words. I am not speaking here of the broad category of sins of the tongue — gossip, slander, quarrelsomeness, and so on. My concern …
Remembering Og and Sihon
I said here that I was looking forward to Peter Leithart’s answer to some of the responses to his piece on the end of Protestantism. And you can read his response to Fred Sanders piece here. If I might, I would like to add just a few observations to the discussion, without assuming that either …
And No Way to Catch It All
“Our good God, our overflowing God, our God of yes and amen, has always been able to promise far more than we are able to believe . . . God loves to bury [our faith] under an avalanche of promises. We serve and worship the God who overwhelms, who delights to overwhelm. At His right …
Opening Gambit
“Bethlehem was the opening gambit in the last campaign of a long war” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 13).
Patriarchy, Vision Forum, and All the Rest of It
Patriarchy Patriarchy simply means “father rule,” and so it follows that every biblical Christian holds to patriarchy. The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church (Eph. 5:23), and fathers have the central responsibility to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Eph. …
Take and Eat
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #135 “And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me” (1 Cor. 11: 24). This is Paul’s recounting of how …
Food Libertarian
From time to time the authorities haul in some renegade cheese maker, and those who love bureaucratized food safety all breath a sigh of relief. This kind of tyranny is heavy-handed enough to get noticed by those who yearn for food freedom — as I do — but not so noticed generally that we can …
No Need for a Rental Unit
My friend Peter Leithart recently wrote about the end of Protestantism for First Things, which understandably excited some comment. Another friend, another Peter, provides an excellent and thoughtful rejoinder here. Peter Escalante brings much needed specificity to the question — the end of something as important as Protestantism, if actually pending, will need to be …
Looking Through
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39). God has given us many gifts — indeed, there is nothing we have that is not a gift. But there is only one gift from Him that enables us to see through things. …
A Cycle of Pomes: Reflections
There once was a president-king Who could do most any cool thing Except writing code, (His limits there showed,) Now our health care is broke, in a sling. There once was an Obamono-whiz Whose health care rollout kinda fizz Led. And it crashed A new clunker for cash, Because that is just what it is. …