One of the ways we can tell how politicized the world has gotten is that it is difficult to say anything about one specific thing without weighing in on everything else in the world. If you offer an opinion, everyone wants to know how this opinion supports or does not support the agenda of the …
Do Your Soul Some Good
I don’t have an awful lot to say about the death of Osama bin Laden. He was a very bad man, and we should be glad that he is now in a place where no injustice will ever come. Unjust men can come there, as bin Laden just did, but no injustice ever will. The …
Hold Our Tummies and Laugh for a While
Thus far, I have enjoyed the presence of Donald Trump on the political stage. The entertainment value is high. He started right in on the birther thing, and within weeks, sure enough, remember the art of the deal, out comes the long form of Obama’s birth certificate. Huh. Wonder how that happened. My initial theory …
A Waffle Way Too Big for the Plates at IHOP
The Bayly brothers have helpfully provided a portion of a transcript in which Tim Keller is being interviewed, and is asked about what the church’s approach to homosexuality should be. Presented with this golden opportunity, I am afraid that Keller whiffed it. He says that a truly biblical response is not to be found among …
Longbird
Because we practiced in the basement, my dear wife called it “Longbird.” The release party for the DVD of our concert will be held at the Nuart theater in Moscow, on May 14, 2011, at 7 pm. There will be discounted DVD/CD/T-shirt options there, for those who yearn for such options. If you are in …
Christ and Rusty Hinges
Understanding the biblical story as a whole is what enables us to understand the cycles within that story. If the Bible were just a grab bag of illustrations and anecdotes, to be applied by us willy nilly, then any fool could justify any situation at any time. But there is a logic to these things, …
Worldview Fist Pumping
After my previous post on Pearcey and the pomos, one correspondent wrote to me, asking me to respond to this review of Pearcey’s book by Alissa Wilkinson. Now in the review, Wilkinson has a laudable “credit where credit is due” pattern that I appreciated very much. But at the end of the day, she was …
Let Us Depart Hence
In Saving Leonardo, Nancy Pearcey writes very helpfully about the fact/value distinction that modern secularism depends upon. In doing this, she is taking one of Francis Schaeffer’s basic illustrations and pushing it into the corners. One particularly helpful observation she made is that postmodernism, despite all the posturing, keeps this quintessential modern dichotomy intact. Postmodernism …
Some People Like Groaners
A man walked into a bar with a dog, and told the men at the bar that he was willing to bet them a round of drinks that his dog was actually a talking dog. “You’re on,” one of the men said. The man turned to his dog and said, “What is on the top …
Remembering the Sniff
I am fond of saying that God is perfect, but not a perfectionist. Related to this, with imitation of God in mind, is my conviction that the Church today needs a lot more puritans, and a lot fewer purists. And, if that were not difficult enough, we have to do it while consistently raising our …