What could be the basis of making fun of other people’s liturgical or ritual religious practices? Isn’t the Lord’s vineyard a big place, and so where do we get off making fun of the color of the bag that some other laborers are using to put the grapes in? Isn’t that a bit churlish? Well, …
Good Girls and Bad Boys
Here are a couple of quick links to CanonWIRED. The first, here , is the next Twilight video clip, and addresses the question of why good girls are attracted to bad boys. And the second, here , is a clip from a sermon on membership, and looks at how church membership is not what many …
A Tornado With Boots
The perennial temptation for modern Reformed Protestants, especially after they get college degrees, is to float toward the sky in wisps of gnostic vapor. Doctrinalism is one kind of gnosticism, and pietism another. Literary structuralism is yet another one. Note that I did not say doctrine, of which the apostle Paul approved, and I did …
Ow. Ouch. Ow. Ow.
What you might call a critique of missional tunnel vision. Check it out here . HT: Bayly Blog
Lofty Vanity
“But this pursuit of meaning in pleasure does not necessitate a frat-boy ethic. A man might be a hedonist, looking for ultimate meaning and value in aesthetic pleasures that are not gross or ostentatious. Perhaps meaning can be found by walking in a groomed Japanese garden contemplating chess moves or geometry problems. While it is …
His Last Ham Sandwich
A correspondent has asked me to comment on the “sin of homophobia.” What is my take on that? In order to address this, we have to ask some questions first. If someone asked us about the sin of eating pork, our follow-up question would be to ask what religion they were concerned with. Judaism? Isalm? …
Nobody Names Their Kid Jeshurun Anymore
I have been a subscriber to National Review since I was a junior in high school or thereabouts, and so that means I have been reading those guys for around 40 years. I think this should give me the right to say something. Well, first, I should say thanks. I owe them all a great …
What You Eat and How You Eat
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Food and Drink #5 “Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof. If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be …
Yellow at the Resurrection
So I like Michael Pollan, and I like his writing voice. This book promises to be a lot of fun, and very informative. For any who want some more background on Pollan, here isa video clip where he and Hugh Grant (no, not that one) discuss some of these issues. Grant is the head of …
Floating Through the World Like a Ghost
As everyone should know by now, my very favorite subject is slavery, and I am always itching for opportunities to talk about it . . . The Baylys have been doing good work in challenging the limitations of the radical two kingdom take on things, and today Tim posted on the Southern Presbyterian doctrine of …