“If our translation is correct, Job is describing in this passage the beneficial effect of his unjust persecution on his own community. I know of no other text where that effect is so bluntly articulated (17:6-9). It is the same as the tragic effect, the Aristotelian catharsis, but this is not a theatrical representation, and …
No, No. The Good Kind of Lynching.
Scott Clark has called the treatment that Steve Wilkins is getting an ecclesiastical lynching. But before you start scratching your head over this puzzlement, he does say this like its a good thing. HT. Mark Horne Land of Goshen! if I may exclaim here with more than my usual vehemence. Or looking at it from …
How Near Is Forgiveness?
Meals talk. They say something. Of course, it does not follow from this that we always listen as we ought. The Word that accompanies this sacrament is not a matter of us talking over the meal, providing some sort of sound track for it. Rather, when we speak here, it is really a matter of …
Worship As Our Central Warfare
When we approach the Lord in order to worship Him, we must remember the context. God is in the process of bringing everything into submission to the Lord Jesus Christ, and He has made us kings and priests on the earth in order to rule with Him. God has not brought about the final manifestation …
No Celestial Lunatic
“Images in the perceived world figured even the ‘irradiations,’ the communicable glories of God, Who is portrayed in Bradstreet more as a wise and loving parent than as the celestial lunatic so often foisted off on the Puritans by their modern detractors” (Daly, p. 91).
It’s Just That We Don’t Have a Screen That Big At Home
“Ironically, concerts today usually feature giant video screens so that fans can see the live performance up close by means of TV! Reality and reproduction are thus, in the postmodernist way, hopelessly confused” (Gene Edward Veith, Postmodern Times, p. 105).
Proves Evolution
“This is true in the realm of science, so believers must assert the account of a six-day creation in Genesis, and reject the various mythologies surrounding evolution, and do so root and branch (Rom. 5:14; 1 Tim. 2:13-14). Few things are as funny as the spectacle of grown men asserting a family resemblance between a …
Taking Time to Brood
“Great men are too popular to succumb immediately to the intrigues that proliferate around them. Mimetic rivalry broods a long time in the shadows” (Girard, Job, p. 54).
A Local Deal
The Moscow School Board voted yesterday to hold an election in March to increase their supplemental levy by $1.97 million. Now there are a number of questions that normally swirl around levy issues. (Is the money used wisely? Why is MSD more expensive than other districts? Voters who pursue other education options being less inclined …
Love of the Senses
“Bradstreet’s prose statements place her within the tradition of orthodox Puritans who loved the sensible world but knew that it could not compare with its Maker” (Daly, p. 88).