Father and God, we praise You now in the name of Jesus Christ. We thank You for this arriving Sabbath, and thank You that we are given the privilege of marking His resurrection from the dead every week. We know that apart from that resurrection, we would all be dead in our sins, and so …
Simple Rhythms of Life
“The educated class has conquered all and hegemonized its Bobo culture over affluent regions from coast to coast. Now the Babbitt lion can mingle with the beatnik lamb at a Pottery Barn, a Smith & Hawken, a Museum Shop, a Restoration Hardware, a Nature Company, a Starbucks, or any of the other zeitgeist-heavy institutions that …
Food Stamps for Conservatives
“Third, vouchers expose the essential hypocrisy of many of our attitudes on public policy. Educational vouchers are nothing but food stamps for conservatives. It is remarkable how often we do not see the principle involved. We simply react to some ‘wasteful’ program, defining wasteful as ‘someone else getting the money.’ Until we learn to fight …
Kant Saves the Day
In his next chapter (4), Grenz does a good job summarizing the views of the modernists, against whose goads the postmodernists have been kicking. He says, “if we are to understand the postmodern agenda, we must look at the rise of the modern mentality to which contemporary thinkers are so vehemently responding” (p. 57). We …
A New Testament Deuteronomy
God loves a cheerful giver. Those who work frantically in His presence displease Him. Those who believe, those who enter rest, are equipped for evangelical work — refreshed work. Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the …
And the Jaws of the Papist Trap Snap Shut
Well, the truth is finally out. You can read it here.
Father Hunger
One of our local critics has gone into print again, reiterating his story, to which he is sticking, that we are somehow “calling for the execution of homosexuals.” Which he says is “just plain ugly.” This canard has been answered more than once, but I want to do it yet again, just for the record. …
Culture Pouts
“Avant-gardism, money, status, Le Chic, and even the 1960s idea of sexiness – it all buzzed around Pop Art. The place, without any question, was Leo Castelli’s gallery at 4 East Seventy-seventh Street. Castelli had Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, most of the heavies. It was there that the Culture buds now hung …
Vouchers and State-Sponsored Theft
[Speaking of school vouchers] “This essay is not calling for tax revolt — a refusal to pay taxes because I am being stolen from. Rather, the point is that we should stop clamoring for yet another program that would require the government to steal still more. The reason we are stolen from is that we …
Imputing Motives and Justice
One of the many valuable things I learned from my father was the strict instruction to refrain from judging the motives of others. This is a blessing beyond compare when it comes to cultivating a healthy marriage and family, and it is oil on troubled waters in many relational conflicts. But it is not an …