Theology That Bites Back
“These last times grow very frequent with some men, till you have the race of clerical visionaries who think vast, dim, vague thoughts, and do no work. It is a danger of all ardent minds. The only salvation, if one finds himself verging to it, is an unsparing rule that no idea, however abstract, shall be every counted as satisfactorily received and grasped till it has opened to us its practical side and helped us somehow in our work”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 77
“It turns out that there are behaviors that are widely accepted at libertarian conferences that don’t really comport with the laws as they are currently structured. This is particularly the case if we are talking about fifteen-year-old girls, which we are.”
Ecochondriacs, p. 170
Reformed Basics #11: The New Birth: Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Lamer . . .: Your Kids Are Welcome Here: Still, Can’t Be Too Careful: HT: Mike Bull Nothing Like an Open Road: And, as always, more here. Jokes I Like to Tell: Back in the days when Chicago was still “out …
“But you don’t save a planet—which doesn’t even need saving in the first place—by convincing hotel chains to try to get out of washing your towels every day. And showing the guests a little cardboard picture of a cute koala, the one that your unwashed towel will somehow mysteriously save”
Ecochondriacs, p. 168
Introduction: The first thing to get out of the way is why I might want to address this subject at all. Don't we have bigger fish to fry? Well, yes, we do, and they are all Nephilim fish. That's why ...
Letter to the Editor: An Apologetic for the Fourth of July Thank you for the brief history lesson. Knowing that the it was illegal for Parliament to levy a tax in the colonies, what ...
“He was an ugly little man, and dapper, and what he didn’t know about dirty politics wasn’t worth knowing. He looked like a civilized man, but if you looked straight into his brown eyes, you could see the sewage pumps. On a bad day you could smell them”
Ecochondriacs, p. 161
Introduction: I have been arguing off and on for a few years now on behalf of a cause I call mere Christendom, meaning that Christians need to recover an understanding of the need for a distinctively ...
For the Bible Reading Challenge this summer, I decided to read George Lamsa's translation of the New Testament—meaning a translation into English from an early Aramaic version. And for the most part, ...
“His little simian nose meant that some of his fights had gotten a little personal, in that his adversaries would taunt him about it. But they were all very sorry now, either that or dead”
Ecochondriacs, p. 160
