Six million African Muslims leave Islam every year. Check this out. The global violence of radical Islam is born, not of raw aggression, but of defensive and insecure panic. HT: David Field
Covetousness
We come now to the second of the seven deadly sins—covetousness. This requires great attention because we have come to an area where we tend to sprinkle lavender water on our vices and call them virtues. “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by …
Paedofaith
Rich Lusk’s important book Paedofaith is reviewed in Christianity Today. HT: Dale Courtney
C.S. Lewis and First Editions. No, Not Kenny Rogers.
May I take a minute to plug Santa Cruz Books? If you would like to get your hands on a C.S. Lewis first edition, this is the place for you. I have added this site to my Books section on the left. Full disclosure: the site is run and maintained by a co-grandparent of the …
Historically Temporary, Aye
“Censorship, during this ‘reversal,’ was essential, because ubiquitous, dangerous, and regressive notions were too quickly translated into practice. Indeed, censorship, for Marcuse, must be deeply pervasive, although historically temporary. The result, he promised, would be to restore real freedom, and the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ once again could attain their ‘true meaning'” (The Shadow University, …
Kennel-Fed Rebels
“As the much censored cartoonist Garry Trudeau has observed in ‘Doonesbury,’ a government-supported avant-garde is a contradiction in terms. The spectacle of supposedly bohemian, anti-establishment artists quivering with indignation and ranting with hysterical rhetoric at the prospect of not receiving money from the bourgeois establishment they attack in their art is glaringly hypocritical (also deliciously …
Secular Schools Mean Secular Ethics
“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed. Christians and assorted traditionalists who want a secular school system to instill anything other than secular ethics are wanting something that has never happened and can never happen” (The …
Doctrinally Bilingual
I have come to a conclusion. I have been in the midst of doctrinal fraci (what’s the plural of fracus?) because I am bilingual. I speak both TR and FV. When I talk with others who are bilingual, we get along famously, and I feel like peace is going to break out across the Reformed …
But I Refuse to Stray
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Now here Your Word is like a lamp That guides my feet in truth. It lights the path before me here, It shows the way through darkest night That I may safely come to You. This oath I took, that I will …
Preparing to Visit
This is an exhortation for both this Lord’s Day and the next. As you know, we rejoice that we have a sister church here in Moscow, Trinity Reformed Church, and we are kept mindful of that fact on a regular basis—we worship together a number of times throughout the year, and it is a great …