“The British government is now in danger of falling into the same trap as the French. After the Muslim riots in France in autumn 2005, the French government, unable to regain control, went in desperation to those who had radicalized the community’s youths in the first place and begged them to restore order. The result …
The Medieval City
“In this, the medieval city was more completely a commonwealth — a full communion and communication of social goods — than any society that has ever existed with the exception of the Greek polis, and it was superior even to the latter, inasmuch as it was not the society of a leisured class supported by …
Psalms as Musical Ballast
“Without a restoration of the psalms to an honored place in worship, our musical worship of the Lord will continue to have the gravitas of a glad bag full of styrofoam packing peanuts” (Mother Kirk, p. 138).
Cold Snakes
“The lusts of men’s hearts are like a bed of snakes in the cold, but the heat of passion warming them causes them to crawl and hiss” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 184).
AlGorithms
I have opened a new category entitled Global Swarming. It has become apparent that this particular form of hysteria over global warming is going to be with us for some months yet, and I would like to say something about it from time to time. The title reflects my conviction that we are ostensibly dealing …
Kind of Makes You Proud
An Oregon man covered 193 miles in a lawn chair, powered by 105 helium balloons. HT: Dale Courtney
A Challies Review
In the world of Christian blogging, Tim Challies pilots one of the dreadnaughts, found here. He was kind enough to review Letter from a Christian Citizen, and that review can be found here. In addition, there is an interview with me about that same book here.
Evangeliberals
Of course, modern evangelicalism and liberalism are not identical. They have differing histories, traditions, customs, and so forth. As movements, they have compromised with worldliness in very different ways, and oddly enough, that particular difference reveals their internal similarities. Whatever the external distinctions, compromise driven by unbelief always ends up looking and smelling the same. …
What God Hath Scattered, Let No Man Gather
“Men can live in their towers, they can build their skyscrapers and their giant cities, they can cover the world with a web of interlocking cities, but these have no more meaning for them. Babel will never be finished” (Jacques Ellul, The Meaning of the City, p. 19).
A Three Way Collision
“This has managed to obscure two absolutely fundamental problems for the Church. The first is that the dominant contemporary political force within Islam is an ideology that seeks to destroy Christianity and its values. The second is that, because the Church has failed to resolve its deeply ambiguous and conflict-laden attitude towards the Jews, it …