Bojidar Marinov has a little fun with me here, wishing that I would become more of a plagiarist than he pretends to believe I already am. He wishes that in my Dirty Cops post I had plagiarized from an article he wrote about the Brown and Garner cases. However, after thinking … [Read more...]
The Content Cluster Muster (08.18.16)
CrossPolitic Podcast Some folks in our Moscow community have started a new podcast venture. Make sure to frequent their site as they begin to add content, should be quite fun. Here's a promo: https://youtu.be/hfz1Fap1kxU The fellas hosting this podcast are Pastor Toby … [Read more...]
Ordinary Loyalty
“Modern man, progressive man, has an insatiable lust to interfere with the ordinary things. He strives to become superman and only succeeds in erasing ordinary men” (Writers to Read, p. 24). … [Read more...]
Always Potent
“Sermons are dangerous things . . . none goes out of Church as he came in, but either better, or worse” (Herbert, The Country Parson, pp. 62-63). … [Read more...]
Dirty Cops
Everyone knows that dirty cops exist. We all know that somewhere, somehow, some cops are on the take, some are morally incompetent, some are on a power trip, some disable their body-cams before taking care of business, and so on. Anyone who believes that dirty cops can’t exist is … [Read more...]
Cracking Down on Crackers
Over the years, as I have written on culture and race, I have had to write on two fronts. In order to engage with the MSNBC-approved narrative, I need to engage with the Black Lives Matter kind of evil, which is all the thing these days. It is evil and popular with the cool kids. … [Read more...]
Joy and Throne
“The Country Parson preacheth constantly, the pulpit is his joy and his throne” (Herbert, The Country Parson, p. 62). … [Read more...]
Different Ways It Can Go
“An ignorant, undisciplined, and unspiritual man cannot write a good sermon; neither need a learned, thoroughly disciplined, and holy man, preach a bad extemporaneous sermon” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 221). … [Read more...]
On Not Blowing Sunshine
Introduction: A few weeks ago, Thabiti contributed to our ongoing discussion of the presidential election and race relations with this post. I responded briefly here, and promised to say more about it later on. It is now later on, and so here I am. Productive … [Read more...]
Review: Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches
Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches by Baird My rating: 4 of 5 stars A helpful compendium of historical Reformed liturgies, and their genealogical connections. The author Baird, given the nature of his subject, is not exactly a barrel … [Read more...]
Review: The Works Of Thomas Reid: Volume 1
The Works Of Thomas Reid: Volume 1 by Thomas Reid My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really informative. Reid was the road not taken, and subsequent centuries paid a heavy price for it. The founder of the sturdy Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Reid attempted to … [Read more...]
Turn Us, Lord: Eighth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 80
Introduction: As with others of the psalms of Asaph, this is likely either in the tradition of the school of Asaph, or by another Asaph downstream from the father of that tradition. The events described here are not what we see in the time of David and Solomon, so it is either … [Read more...]
Whoa and Giddyup
Self-control is not a virtue that can be tucked away in one small portion of our lives. We have seen that it applies everywhere, and that when a people are self-governed, they are in a position to enjoy free government. It should be self-evident to us that a huge collection of … [Read more...]
Host, Guest, Food
In this meal we eat family style. We both receive the food and we pass the food. In addition to this, because it is a covenant meal, we consume the food that is made up for all the others, and we offer ourselves to be consumed to all the others. We are enabled to do this because … [Read more...]
Standing Fast
If I might, I would like to begin with a set of bundled quotations. The first is from The Pilgrim’s Progress, the second from John Buchan’s trilogy of books, The 39 Steps, Mr. Standfast, and Greenmantle, and the third from a few places in Scripture. Please bear with me for just a … [Read more...]
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