“This knowledge of ultimate justice puts every judicial monstrosity in perspective. In a day when judicial monstrosities grow like thistles in sunshines, we need the encouragement” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 52).
Heidy Hey
Okay, many have been clamoring for a video clip from our band’s performance at Bucers last week . . . okay, it was only one clamoring and . . . okay, it was Dan Phillips clamoring, okay, okay. But I think I should put one up anyway. Alan Burrow is on drums — he is …
The Pin Doesn’t Have to Be Big
A former student wrote me about my “ten-point theology of resistance” to Obamascare and, boiled down, the question had to do with how all this relates to what we have taught here in Moscow for years about the centrality of worship. There are some related questions, but they all revolve around that one. Since I …
Opportunity in Moscow
Over the years, we have had the good fortune to have a number of people move here to Moscow for Logos, NSA or other reasons. But one of the challenges in a small community like ours is finding a significant business opportunity to facilitate a move to our community. With that in mind, I am …
That Parishioner on the Go
I heard somewhere that American football is shown in the UK (when it is shown) in an interesting way. They show all the plays being run, but eliminate the huddles and the standing around. This causes them to miss one aspect of the game, which is the fact that football games are actually, as one …
Three Reasons Why the Keepers of the Reformed Flame Don’t Understand Their Own Tradition
Something of an extended discussion has broken out over at Greenbaggins, and this discussion revolves around whether acceptance of the law/gospel hermeneutic is necessary in order to be faithful to sola fide. Looking at that discussion, my son-in-law commented that it was like watching junior high boys, down in the rec room, arguing over the …
No Profit
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Food and Drink #9 “Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein” (Heb. 13:9). The author …
Utter Irrelevance
Here is Bruce Waltke, on why Christians should believe in evolution. HT: Joe Rigney. There are (at least) five confusions here. First, he wants to say that if we believe that the Lord is the Giver and Creator of all life, and we do so in a way that is not approved by our secularist …
Nothing Wrong with Little Bugles
This is not writer’s block, but I don’t have a lot to say about Michael Pollan’s next chapter either. In this case, it is because the kind of stuff that others find scary I find pretty mundane. Either that or pretty cool. In this chapter Pollan describes the processes that cause food to be called …
Tattered Magnificence
Peter’ next chapter is a brief one, and I will be even more brief. It is more explicitly autobiographical, and concerns the tattered magnificence of an England that was clearly visible when Peter was a boy, and which is now almost entirely gone. It is important to note that this chapter is not Peter giving …