“Polish without substance is sophistry. Substance without polish is . . . well, actually we don’t know what it is because nobody pays attention to it” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 133).
Why Ad Rates for Super Bowl Halftime Should Be Inexpensive
[Michael Medved] “points out the hypocrisy of those in the dream business who proclaim that movies don’t influence belief or behavior while charging millions of dollars for advertising and product placements in movies and receiving awards and prestige for promoting trendy social agendas.” (Brian Godawa, Hollywood Worldviews, p. 17).
Persecutors Are Invisible to Themselves
“Persecutors believe they choose their victims because of the crimes they attribute to them, which make them in their eyes responsible for the disasters to which they react by persecution. Actually, the victims are determined by the criteria of persecution that are faithfully reported to us, not because they want to inform us but because …
Some More Theological Discourse
As my father-in-law puts it, who has more fun than people? Just think. These men could have been doing something important, like serving on the PCA committee investigating the Auburn Avenue stuff. But wait a minute . . . I think this is the committee. HT: Mark Horne
Taste at the Table
We know that God created food in order to nourish us. But is this all God does with food? Not at all—look at how much of the world was created in order to be tasted. In the course of a single day, we may experience and taste tangerines, mayonnaise, bacon, plums, salmon, steak, salt, salads, …
Holy Impatience
You are here in part to learn a holy impatience. By this I do not mean susceptibility to annoyance or irritability, but rather an impatience with every false thing that tricks itself out as something worthy of admiration. You may be assured that behind every such false claim is an idol, carved from some man’s …
Fourth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 31
Introduction: Periodically we spend ten weeks on a series of psalms, and we now come to Psalms 31-40. This psalm is notable in that Jesus quoted from it for His last words on the cross. He has been followed in this by many of His disciples, including Polycarp, Bernard, Huss, Luther, and Melancthon. The Text: …
The Magical Comeback
“The American church has a relatively short history of assuming that true Christianity disappeared when the last apostle died and did not reappear until the camp meetings on the Kentucky frontier in 1799. Some, more moderate in their views, do not think the church disappeared until the third or fourth century, but it always seems …
Deconstructing Television
“During the long millennia of material scarcity, the customer’s time was what economists call an externality, like air or water. It was an economic asset so readily available that it escaped economic accounting. In the old economy and a holdover in the new, a key rule of commerce was: Waste the customer’s time. This was …
The Persecuting Mind
“Ultimately, the persecutors always convinces themselves that a small number of people, or even a single individual, despite his relative weakness, is extremely harmful to the whole of society” (Rene Girard, The Scapegoat, p. 15).