Theology That Bites Back
Dear Friends, In recent months, I have had the privilege of serving on the executive committee for the Joint Eastern European Project (JEEP). Genuine ministry is always complicated, but when conducted in a time of war, the complexity increases by orders of magnitude. As you might expect, the war in Ukraine has had exactly that …
Introduction: There have been some interesting doings back there on the East Coast. My friend Nick Solheim gave a speech to the Boston College Republicans. Apparently someone in the upper reaches of ...
“In these disintegrating days, there will be a temptation to appeal to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in order to prop up the western liberal tradition. And if the appeal is to Christ, I’ll take it, just like I think the wino at the soul kitchen ought to pray the prayer.”
Letter to the Editor: You, sir, are a loser at life. That’s a fair-minded statement. Mary Mary, you're telling me! Fair-minded? Are you kidding me? If you knew just ...
“I can get gumbo and grits more easily in New Orleans than I can in Manchester, New Hampshire. The same goes for hearing live zydeco. These represent variations in a common culture. A farmer with a pickup truck in Wisconsin listens to music all the time that sings about red Georgia clay, and this despite the fact that he has never seen any. This is part of the texture of a common culture, and a big part of what makes it so enjoyable to live in a country as big as ours. But abortion represents an alien civilization.”
Introduction: So this next chapter by Campbell is kind of long, so I am not going to tackle it all in one go. The territory to be covered this time around will simply be pp. 134-152—that should ...
Acts of the Apostles (46): Introduction: So Paul is resolved to go to Jerusalem, and apparently a sense of destiny rests upon him. He is repeatedly warned what will happen if he goes there, and ...
I would like to thank Jeff Durbin and Bradley Pierce for what I thought was a respectful and fruitful debate. Most of it was ex temp, but my opening statement is below. Opening Statement “Civil magistrates should reject regulatory Pro-Life legislative strategies as biblically forbidden, morally compromised, and practically counterproductive.” I want to begin by …
“You cannot build a federal system when the component parts belong to different civilizations.”
