Tyranny is a problem, and as with all other problems it must be properly diagnosed before we start proposing solutions. I take it as a given that we are living under what Paul Rahe calls “soft despotism.” While it is true we don’t have to put up with goose-steppers or missile parades, the nanny state …
Even Creeps
“But even creeps have hopes, dreams, aspirations. Even creeps have a story and perhaps a brief moment in their toddler years when they were cute” (Evangellyfish, p. 111).
All Head Covering, No Cattle. So to Speak
“The conservative Christian world has no small number of big time submission mamas who are anything but submissive” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 65).
Hecklers Gonna Heck
I responded briefly to Thabiti’s most recent post on Saturday. He wrote here, and I responded here. But there was one important point he made that required more time than I had, and with everyone’s permission I will get to it now. “Reading your last post, however, I wonder if you might not be stumbling …
Book of the Month/April 2013
Sorry about the price, but I am picking this book as my book of the month anyhow. Get your mom to buy it for you. Ask your librarian to stock it. Save up for it. Update on the price: The University of Missouri Press is having a sale through April, which means you can get …
Another Rose Hedge Awaits
There are a couple things in Thabiti’s most recent post that I would like to respond to immediately, and then perhaps pick up the thread of the discussion on Monday — after we have all celebrated the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, the one in whom all nations, kindreds, peoples, and tongues may dwell …
Gospel Presence I: The Resurrection of the World
INTRODUCTION:The resurrection of Jesus was not an odd circumstance in an otherwise unchanged world. This world is not what it used to be because this world is the place where a man once came back from the dead. And when He came back, it was not as a resuscitation, as happened with Lazarus, but as …
Old Wineskins in a New Age
Today is the day we mark the glorious resurrection of Jesus from the dead, in a higher and more pronounced way than we do every week. Every Sunday is resurrection Sunday, today is Resurrection Sunday. Many Christians observe a Lenten fast up to this day, a custom we do not observe. While it is possible …
When You May Explain Yourself
One of the great problems we have is the temptation to self-justification. But whenever we justify ourselves, it is because we are covering ourselves with stories and excuses, woven out of our own heads, instead of covering ourselves with the blood of Jesus Christ, plus nothing else. Of course, the fact that we are sinners …
Trigger Alert Study Bible
Reading the latest two posts by Thabiti, which you may find here and here, I am more convinced than ever that he is a gracious Christian gentleman. I continue to be privileged to be in a discussion with a man of his caliber, and I trust this post of mine will move us farther into …