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Coronafied Letters
The Devil Is Way Nicer
“Those who cannot bear to be reproved had better look for another school-master than God. There are many who will not stand it: ‘What! is this the way to teach? Ho! we want to be won by sweetness.’ ‘You do? Then go and teach God his lessons!’”
Parker, Calvin’s Preaching, p. 14
Dry Loose Gravel
“He was about sixty, but his time in the Alaskan oil fields had made him seem about ten years older than that. ‘Thank you so much,’ he said, as he went through. His voice sounded like loose gravel being stirred with a stick.”
And Now for a Spot of Good News, However Unwelcome That Might Be
Introduction: By way of reminder, we have been visited with three distinct disasters. The first is the COVID virus itself. The second is the economic devastation that has been caused by a dramatic and unnecessary over-reaction to the virus. And the third is the threat to civil liberties that is posed by a thoughtless granting …
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Our New Digs
So some months ago Blog & Mablog moved into our new digs, and we have been some time in getting everything out of the cardboard boxes and organized. Now that we are basically there, I thought I should explain some things, and also draw your attention to some features — both new and old. This …
The Sermon as Spear
“Teaching on its own is not sufficient, for we are cold and indifferent to God’s truth We need to be pierced. The preacher has to use vehemence, so that we may know that this is not a game.”
Parker, Calvin’s Preaching, p. 12
Though It Didn’t
“So he tried his first line again. ‘Christ is the Lord of the nations in a spiritual sense,’ he said. A number of pony tails in the front rows bobbed because they saw that this was intended to make sense.”
What Trump is Up To Now, Along with Some Other COVID-Ends and Corona-Odds
What Goeth Down: So the president pulled an amazing volte-face just the other night, and I admire the chutzpah involved so much that I wanted to write about it for a little bit. After we all get tired of that, I want to write about some other stuff for another little bit. And by the …
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Christianity vs Islam vs Secularism
Or Perhaps Her Intern
