“In the ancient world, it took some explaining to show the, in the command to love our neighbor, a despised alien fell under the biblical definition of neighbor. But in the modern world, it takes some explaining to show that our neighbors are our neighbors” (Mother Kirk, p. 224).
Through a Child’s Eyes
Quite a revealing conversation. Many years ago, David Chilton took his son Nathan to a special service at an area church. The ensuing conversation was really something.
Jupiterian Amillennialism
Darryl Hart is easy to read, but, in another sense, he is very hard to read. His second chapter “Whose Freedom, Which Liberty?” is a treasure trove of historical information, but his discussion also includes, it must be said, an astonishing oversight. I don’t know what — other than an amillennialism that appears to have …
Efficacious Sacrifice
Introduction to Sacrifice We now come the area where we are going to have the most difficulty with Girard’s approach—but not so much in what he sees throughout the ancient world, but in how far he extends it, and what as a result he excludes from the atonement of Christ. He has a great deal …
All Together Now
We have a tremendous privilege here—two congregations are seated together, partaking of the Lord’s Supper together. This is an emblem, a sign, a small statement of a much more glorious statement—one that actually occurs in the heavenly realms all the time. In the power of the Spirit, all the churches of Christ throughout the world …
American Smile
This morning I was flipping through the 150th Anniversary edition of The Atlantic Monthly, and was cracked up by this image from Michael Beirut.
No Incumbents
Our Moscow City Council election is about a week and a half away. For those involved, the simplest rule of thumb is to vote for no incumbents, which would include Lamar, Ament, and Pall. They have been been hip-deep in the antics of the last several years, and there are a few reminders of that …
So Then, Dumbledore Is Gay, They Say
I don’t think there is any way to take the news that Dumbledore turns out to be homosexual as anything other than a stellar business. I haven’t heard such good news since that business about Gore and the Nobel Prize. This announcement made a bunch of issues just float right up to the surface, where …
Making the Unclean Clean
When Jesus comes back across the sea, He performs two remarkable miracles, the first performed while He is on His way to the second. The woman with the issue of blood was healed while Christ was on His way to the house of Jairus. “And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the …
From Donne to Taylor
“Specifically, my concern here is with the biblical, Protestant poetics informing a major strain of English seventeenth-century religious lyric: the chief characteristic of that poetics can, I suggest, be clearly discerned, and the history of the literary impact traced with some precision — from the quickening of Donne to the developing theory, to the exhaustion …